Nana Mouskouri famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Believe #Sadness #Appreciate
When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Want
One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Beautiful #Memories #House
I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Husband #Lunch #People
I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Confused #Tired #Thinking
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Loss #Exercise #Voice
If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Rooms #Emotion #Middle
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Mouths #Attention #Habit
My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Singing #Energy #Reason
How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Important #Way
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Book #Silence #Months
The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Wall #Berlin #Wonderful
The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#War #Ideas #Community
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Ugly Duckling #Ducklings #Wonderful
When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Giving #Care #Way
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Pregnancy #Son #Singing
Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Umpires #World #Needs
UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Done #Made #Unicef
My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Song #Soul #Firsts
It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Nice #Important #Looks
When I was singing, everybody liked me.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Singing
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Love #Song #Prove
I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Country #Language #Respectful
All children are my children.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Children #My Children
I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Children #Giving #Luck
I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Children #Eye #Giving
I think sometimes you are born with a song.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Song #Thinking #Sometimes
I was born a singer. I need to do that.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Singers #Needs #Born
I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Thinking #Singing #Grew

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