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Music is part of God's universe.

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Cat Stevens
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 21
Composer
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Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Steven Demetre Georgiou
Yusuf Islam
Yusuf
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The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
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Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
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Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.
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Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss?
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Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame.
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Love heats my blood, blood spins my head, and my head falls in love.
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I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.
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Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
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I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
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Baby I know, the first cut is the deepest.
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I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.
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It's true that the Internet is an equalizer, and everybody can be a star now. Musicians are more touchable these days, and that's a good thing. It's certainly the way I like to live my life, and it's why I don't do concerts in big arenas - I prefer to be in touch with my audience.
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And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.
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Life is a journey, you know and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.
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But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know The first cut is the deepest.
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Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
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I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
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I remember when I was a kid, when I just used to love listening to something again and again and over and over. You know, everybody else got sick of it, but I loved that discovery of music and what it did to my world, to my imagination. And so I started really considering, Yeah, I've got to do more, for kids, particularly.
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Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an it asks you to reflect and reason....When I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer, kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the o­nly answer for me was the Qur'an and God had sent it to me.
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Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
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