Nana Mouskouri Quotes

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

It’s nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

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.

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.

With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

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.

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.

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.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

All children are my children.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

Once I was condemned to three months’ absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

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.

I was born a singer. I need to do that.

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.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

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.

I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.