Nana Mouskouri Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Nana Mouskouri Quotes and Sayings
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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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.
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I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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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.
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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.
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I think sometimes you are born with a song.
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I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
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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.
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It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.
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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.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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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.
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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.
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The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
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The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.
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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.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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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.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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