In the Averoff prison hospital I saw men who had had the bones in their feet broken by the severity of the… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
In my youth there must have been 15 synagogues in Salonika alone. — Mikis Theodorakis Alone Copy Share Image
All our problems happened because the Americans made all the decisions. — Mikis Theodorakis Americans Copy Share Image
A man who goes to jail for his ideas is much freer than his keepers. — Mikis Theodorakis 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
Always I have lived with two sounds - one political, one musical. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
The Greeks have needlessly been maneuvered towards the abyss. — Mikis Theodorakis Abyss Copy Share Image
I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
We saw that on the Turkish side there was a sincere wish for peace. But before I could even put my foot… — Mikis Theodorakis Peace Copy Share Image
I have again decided to leave my cultural obligations and music to enter the political arena this time to contribute with all… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
We cry. The Greeks cry because we have not an objective today. Yesterday we have objective to put off the dictatorship. Today… — Mikis Theodorakis Dictatorship Copy Share Image
I've been uprooted. I don't think a tree that's been uprooted as a happy tree and I'm not very happy. I can't… — Mikis Theodorakis 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
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 am a song of my times. I wasn't living in Vienna, like Mozart or Beethoven. In my circumstances, it was impossible… — 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… — Mikis Theodorakis Children 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
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 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
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
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
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'll write three operas - one for Verdi, one for Puccini, and one for Bellini. — Mikis Theodorakis Operas Copy Share Image
I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man. — 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
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
