Nusrat Quotes

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.

Time is like a barber, it shears you first and then shows you your own face in the mirror. (Marrying Nusrat)

A man learns all his life , and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything .

I get in, and she turns the music down. It’s Nusrat, remixed and clubby, but damn good as always.

Fraud is infinite in variety. The fertility of man’s invention in is so great, that the Courts have always declined to define it or to define undue influence, which is one of its many varieties, reserving to themselves the liberty to deal with it under whatever form it may present itself.

People of this world are getting cleverer and cleverer," Aunty Annie announced, in a loud, emphatic voice, "But the men of our family, I'm telling you Nusrat, only Allah is their savior." -- Our Zubi Uncle

Talvin Singh, Thievery Corporation, A.R. Rahman, AmarBaaba Maal, Asian Dub Foundation, Autechre, Badmarsh and Sri, Bjork, Black Star Liner, The Blue Nile, Boards of Canada, The Chemical Brothers, Dead Can Dance, The Fake Portishead, Future Sound of London, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Goldfrapp, Jamyang, Joi, Jeff Buckley, Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham: original movie soundtrack, Nitin Sawhney, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Rakesh Chaurasia, Sigur Rós, State of Bengal.

NUSRAT: I don’t know . . . sometimes I feel ashamed . . . RASHEED: Of being a Muslim? Nusrat nods. RASHEED: Well son, let me tell you something that will cheer you up. We didn’t invent apartheid. We didn’t invent germ warfare. We didn’t start the world wars or the holocaust. We didn’t have gulags. We were not in Vietnam. Nor did we bomb Hiroshima. Does that make you feel better? Nusrat

Later, as he lay in bed, Nusrat recalled the phrase used by Jamal Khan: ‘a long-distance travelling partner.’ He liked it. It came from a Persian couplet that measured the love between a man and a woman to distances travelled together. Love was not the beginning of a journey but the consequences of one. It grew and flourished along the way. If there was no journey travelled, there was no love.

The world is changing rapidly?’ said Nusrat. ‘And I am on the side of change. There have been revolutions in France and Russia. Mighty storms have swept away old histories and values. Kings and queens do not matter any more because all men are equal. And I believe that from now on, men will be judged not by who they are, what their families own or where they come from, but by what they can do. Look at the decrees of Kemal Atatürk! In one stroke, he has changed the destiny of his people and his country. Look at what electricity, the telephone and the motor car have done to the world! There are even airplanes in the sky! Every day something is being discovered. That is the world I have gambled on. That is the world I believe will shape the future. We have a choice. Do we want to live in a well from which we can see only a patch of sky, or do we want to live outside the well and see much more? I want to live outside the well. That is the way I want to see the world.’ Nusrat

It was so apparent that he loved her very much. Was that it? Maybe it was. It took a lot to accept the decision of a daughter and overrule everyone else. Nusrat