Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 9, 1974

Music is the voice of the soul and can move mountains. People receive the message of the soul through the voice. It is a voice, the tone that moves something in people.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

But I am poised to restart qawwali and have a spiritual album of it available.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I have not yet worked with A.R. Rahman and it is my hearty desire to do so. In Jugni both of us have a song but we have not sung together.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Love is the root of everything. Whatever you do you must do with love so I also sing with love and perform with love for the love of my audience.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I always think that for each day of my life, the tune of that day is particular to that day. Each day brings a different tune and I follow whatever it is.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

My wife adores me, I love my family, why would I want to marry anyone else?

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

My responsibility is to the music and the industry.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

All the film stuff is business. Those are the songs I practise for, rehearse for, make money from.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Qawaali is the art, that's in my soul. It's the ground. Everything else is a passing season - wind, rain, sunshine.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I was nine when I started training and performing, my son is even more passionate than I was.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

For more than 300 years Qawwali music and Sufism have been deeply anchored in my family's roots and we spread it around to the public.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I belong to this family: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family. Since my childhood I have always wanted to sing and learn music. Whenever I saw Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan play, I felt inspired to be like him.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

In India, people have greeted me with great love. Not as a Pakistani, but as a singer. They respect me and I feel very much appreciated.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

The rhythm of sitar cannot be created with chords of guitar and vice versa as both the instruments have a distinct purpose in music.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

One thing is certain if something is gaining popularity that means there is a market and audience for it. New things will comes but pure Sufi music will stay as it has for centuries.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I enjoyed working with Vishal Bhardwaj. As an artist I still think the song could have been better but everyone liked it the way it was composed, so no complaints.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

But in the Indian film industry, from the moment a child is born, he is taught music, he is taken for classical classes.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I think that our family is very fortunate, very lucky, that on their own merit, from themselves, using whatever means necessary, singing Qawwali, in all corners and areas, in every place, singing in villages, they've promoted it.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Michael Jackson. I'm a fan of his, a very big fan.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I was born in a family of very talented people. Music runs in my blood and I could never think of anything else but this.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan