This taste of freedom is still bitter because left in Athens are my wife and my two children and because so many… — Mikis Theodorakis Children Copy Share Image
I wanted to unite the popular and the serious, and to make a popular symphony, a popular oratorio. — Mikis Theodorakis Make 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 Intention 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 Destroy 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… — Mikis Theodorakis Children Copy Share Image
I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man. — Mikis Theodorakis Anything 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 Fear Copy Share Image
I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today. — Mikis Theodorakis Always 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 Love Copy Share Image
In my youth there must have been 15 synagogues in Salonika alone. — Mikis Theodorakis Alone 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
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've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert. — Mikis Theodorakis Before Copy Share Image
In the Averoff prison hospital I saw men who had had the bones in their feet broken by the severity of the… — Mikis Theodorakis Broken Copy Share Image
All our problems happened because the Americans made all the decisions. — Mikis Theodorakis Because Copy Share Image
I have been trying for years to perform in America. Now the first time I am here there is a strike. I… — Mikis Theodorakis America Copy Share Image
Whether art is music or cinema or whatever, it really is art only when it is in touch with the people -… — Mikis Theodorakis Art Copy Share Image
I will continue to be critical of the system. Every honest patriot continues to fight against it. — Mikis Theodorakis Continue 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
I am a song of my times. I wasn't living in Vienna, like Mozart or Beethoven. In my circumstances, it was impossible… — Mikis Theodorakis Circumstances Copy Share Image
A man who goes to jail for his ideas is much freer than his keepers. — Mikis Theodorakis His Copy Share Image
