I've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
American Jews are behind the world economic crisis that has hit Greece also. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
We're in danger! Zionism and it leaders are here, meeting in our country! This is no laughing matter. — Mikis Theodorakis Country Copy Share Image
I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
All the time I see things that remind me very much of the 1930s. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I would not sacrifice myself for a system like the Soviet system to be established in Greece. — Mikis Theodorakis Europe Copy Share Image
I wanted to unite the popular and the serious, and to make a popular symphony, a popular oratorio. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is anti-Semitism in Europe. There is a reaction against the policy of Sharon and Bush. I think it's… — Mikis Theodorakis Anti semitism Copy Share Image
There was a Yugoslav film about partisans that I've done the music for, and then I've promised to score a French film… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
Oh, what am I for the Frenchman or the Italian? A guy who was in prison, a revolutionary, somebody they once read… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
My work is based upon contemporary Greek poetry - poetry which is concerned with the problems of today's civilization and, of course,… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have… — Mikis Theodorakis Art Copy Share Image
My father's father fought to free Crete from the Turks, who expelled my mother from her ancestral home in Asia Minor in… — Mikis Theodorakis Country Copy Share Image
Greece is the only country in the Balkans that does not have territorial designs on its neighbors and wants to live in… — Mikis Theodorakis Balkans Copy Share Image
I put one questions. For whom I compose? My answer is I wanted to address to all my people. And if I… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I got hundreds and hundreds of poisonous e-mails from Jews all over the world. I couldn't understand this hatred toward me. I… — Mikis Theodorakis Day Copy Share Image
The conservatory professors thought everything should sound like French and German symphonies. But to my ear, bouzouki songs, which tell the sufferings… — Mikis Theodorakis Classical music Copy Share Image
The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But… — Mikis Theodorakis Communists Copy Share Image
I was thankful to him, this man who freed me. At the same time I was annoyed be cause the man who… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
For me the root of evil today is the policy of President Bush. It is a fascist policy. I cannot understand how… — Mikis Theodorakis Evil Copy Share Image
I will continue to be critical of the system. Every honest patriot continues to fight against it. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I'll write three operas - one for Verdi, one for Puccini, and one for Bellini. — Mikis Theodorakis Operas Copy Share Image
In America the Jewish community is very strong. It controls much of the economy. Certainly the mass media. — Mikis Theodorakis America Copy Share Image
I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
The Greeks have needlessly been maneuvered towards the abyss. — Mikis Theodorakis Abyss Copy Share Image
Always I have lived with two sounds - one political, one musical. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
