Nana Mouskouri Quotes

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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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 think sometimes you are born with a song.
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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 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 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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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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