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
All the time I see things that remind me very much of the 1930s. — Mikis Theodorakis 1930s 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'll write three operas - one for Verdi, one for Puccini, and one for Bellini. — Mikis Theodorakis Operas Copy Share Image
The Greeks have needlessly been maneuvered towards the abyss. — Mikis Theodorakis Abyss 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 About 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 Newspaper 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
In Greece there is a very particular situation because on one hand the colonels took away everyone's political rights, but at the… — Mikis Theodorakis Greece Copy Share Image
Those who had talked to us about national pride and Christian brotherly love were the first to come to terms or actively… — Mikis Theodorakis Brotherly love 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
