Operas Quotes by Mikis Theodorakis

This taste of freedom is still bitter because left in Athens are my wife and my two children and because so many of my…

— Mikis Theodorakis

I wanted to unite the popular and the serious, and to make a popular symphony, a popular oratorio.

— Mikis Theodorakis

I was thankful to him, this man who freed me. At the same time I was annoyed be cause the man who freed me…

— Mikis Theodorakis

We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world.

— Mikis Theodorakis

When I was still a child, there was the Metaxis, a Fascist Youth Movement in which all subteenagers and teenagers were obligatory members, where…

— Mikis Theodorakis

I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man.

— Mikis Theodorakis

The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists,…

— Mikis Theodorakis

I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today.

— Mikis Theodorakis

My work is based upon contemporary Greek poetry - poetry which is concerned with the problems of today's civilization and, of course, with simple…

— Mikis Theodorakis

In my youth there must have been 15 synagogues in Salonika alone.

— Mikis Theodorakis

I like to have the feeling I'm creating something.

— Mikis Theodorakis

My father's father fought to free Crete from the Turks, who expelled my mother from her ancestral home in Asia Minor in 1922. So…

— Mikis Theodorakis

In America the Jewish community is very strong. It controls much of the economy. Certainly the mass media.

— Mikis Theodorakis

I've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert.

— Mikis Theodorakis

In the Averoff prison hospital I saw men who had had the bones in their feet broken by the severity of the torture.

— Mikis Theodorakis