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Nusrat F. A. Khan

"He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard."

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Donna Grant

"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."

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Donna Grant

"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."

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Donna Grant

"I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."

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Donna Grant

"If you feel like singing along, don't."

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Donna Grant

"How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."

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Donna Grant

"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."

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Donna Grant

"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."

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Donna Grant

"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."

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Donna Grant

"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

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Nusrat F. A. Khan
"In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat."

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Nusrat F. A. Khan
"On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time."

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Nusrat F. A. Khan
"I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good."

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Nusrat F. A. Khan
"He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard."

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Nusrat F. A. Khan
"Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart."

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Nusrat F. A. Khan
"When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it."

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Nusrat F. A. Khan
"I have a daughter, she's twenty years old."

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Nusrat F. A. Khan
"I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand."

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Nusrat F. A. Khan
"Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy."

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Nusrat F. A. Khan
"I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer."

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