Ali Khan
Ali Khan
american-comedian people
When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.
american-comedian
I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.
american-comedian change classical people tried understand
Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.
father tasks singers
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
jazz classical-music western
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
voice musical may
The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music..
mother daughter years
I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.
voice singing singers
Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.
He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too
love-is people easy
People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.
house admitting sitting
When I sing for God, I feel myself in accord with God, and the house of God, Mecca, is right in front of me. And I worship. When I sing for Mohammed, peace be upon him, our prophet, I feel like I am sitting right next to his tomb, Medina, and paying him respect and admitting to myself that I accept his message.
artist soul mind
To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist,One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.
thinking men dies
A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
connections no-point
I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.