Nana Mouskouri Quotes

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

Sad, Happiness, Sadness

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

Good, Nice, Important

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

Tired, Thinking, Everything

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

Sad, Happy, Afraid

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

Time, Attention, Everybody

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

Medical, Long, After

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

Best, Important, Decide

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
Nana Mouskouri

Thinking, Security, Singing

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, Important, Friends

I think sometimes you are born with a song.
Nana Mouskouri

Sometimes, Song, Born

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

Thought, Country, Language

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

Living, Energy, Reason

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
Nana Mouskouri

Food, Friends, Soul

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

Book, Silence, Speak

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

Life, Beautiful, Forget

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

Down, Happen, Wonderful

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
Nana Mouskouri

War, Again, Idea

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

Before, Secret, Cooking

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

Time, Strange, Son

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

Life, Done, Made

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
Nana Mouskouri

Life, Questions, Songs

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

Love, Work, Care

When I was singing, everybody liked me.
Nana Mouskouri

Everybody, Singing, Liked

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

Nothing, Young, Wonderful

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Nationality: Greek

Born: October 13, 1934

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