Mouskouri Famous Quotes & Sayings
33 Mouskouri Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
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
When you want something very dearly, you make the time.— Nana Mouskouri
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.— Nana Mouskouri
When I was singing, everybody liked me.— Nana Mouskouri
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
I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.— Nana Mouskouri
I grew up thinking that singing was my security.— Nana Mouskouri
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
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.— Nana Mouskouri
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
When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.— Nana Mouskouri
My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.— Nana Mouskouri
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
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.— Nana Mouskouri
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
I think sometimes you are born with a song.— Nana Mouskouri
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
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
It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.— Nana Mouskouri
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.— Nana Mouskouri
UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.— Nana Mouskouri
The idea of the European community is never face a war again.— Nana Mouskouri
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
First I put on what I thought of as my 'artistic' outfit, a green smock dress with huge amber beads stitched into it. I imagined the kind of people who went to concerts might be quite arty and flamboyant. Will and Nathan both stared at me as I entered the living room.— Jojo Moyes
'No,' said Will, flatly.
'That looks like something my mum would wear,' said Nathan.
'You never told me your mum was Nana Mouskouri,' Will said.
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
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
When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.— Nana Mouskouri
I was born a singer. I need to do that.— Nana Mouskouri
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.— Nana Mouskouri
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
I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.— Christian Louboutin
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
All children are my children.— Nana Mouskouri
