Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

My music is jazz.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

Jazz is the American’s preferred music, and it is created by Negroes to satisfy their love of noise and to whet their sexual desires ...

Jazz music is the American's music of choice. This is that music that the Negroes invented to satisfy their primitive inclinations, as well as their desire to be noisy.

As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock stars: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan.

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

I love listening to classical music.

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.