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 artificial to think there is a new anti-Semitism. It's an excuse. It's a way to avoid self-criticism. — Mikis Theodorakis 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 and heartaches of ordinary people, offered a way to make classical music available not just to the upper… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
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 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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man. — Mikis Theodorakis 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 the communists,… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today. — 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, with simple… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
In my youth there must have been 15 synagogues in Salonika alone. — Mikis Theodorakis 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 1922. So… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
