Nana Mouskouri Quotations

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

All children are my children.