"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.."

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Source : "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: A Living Legend" by Ahmed Aqeel Ruby, translated by Sajjad Haider Malik, Lahore: Words of Wisdom, 1992.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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“Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.”

Source : "Climate Change: Case Closed" by Rep. Alan Lowenthal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.
“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.”
“A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.”
“When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.”
“Nothing else loves me, nor ever will. Not even - especially - me. I know what I am and that's not a thing to love.”
“I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.”

Source : 'Journal of a Disappointed Man' (1919) 23 Oct. 1910
“The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.”
“You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.”

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