Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

I've never made a bad song.

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good as they can with it rather than just be simply adequate at it. You run into them every once in a while - some kid who wants to be the next Stevie Ray Vaughan, for whatever reason, and plays exactly like him.

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.

I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.

Since I was a child, I watched tapes of Baggio, Zico, and Maradona, and then I tried to replicate them just playing on my own against the wall. Certainly it's talent, but you have to cultivate that talent.

I think we've debunked the myth of talent. It doesn't appear that there's anything like a music gene or center in the brain that Stevie Wonder has that nobody else has.