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Cat Stevens
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 21
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Steven Demetre Georgiou
Yusuf Islam
Yusuf
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I've studied various schools of thought ... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times ...
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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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Now I'm not making love to anyone's wishes, Only for that light I see 'Cause when I'm dead and lowered low in my grave, That's gonna be the only thing that's left of me.
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Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame.
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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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The harm done is often difficult to repair.
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If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.
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Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.
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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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They have hijacked my religion.
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Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
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Ever since I became a Muslim ... I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes, concepts or sayings which I do not and would never wilfully subscribe to.
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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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Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
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After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.
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So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.
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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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Baby I know, the first cut is the deepest.
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There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.
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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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