A biography for Mikis Theodorakishasn’t been written yet.
“I want to leave this world as a Communist.”
“Greece is the only country in the Balkans that does not have territorial designs on its neighbors and wants to live in peace with them.”
“When I was still a child, there was the Metaxis, a Fascist Youth Movement in which all subteenagers and teenagers were obligatory members, where they tried to imbue us with two ideals - nationalism and Christianity.”
“My work is based upon contemporary Greek poetry - poetry which is concerned with the problems of today's civilization and, of course, with simple personal feelings of love, nostalgia, etc.”
“When you think of it, you know, probably the biggest victim of our epoch is the American people because of all the crimes committed in its name.”
“I am a song of my times. I wasn't living in Vienna, like Mozart or Beethoven. In my circumstances, it was impossible to be indifferent.”
“I would not sacrifice myself for a system like the Soviet system to be established in Greece.”
“Those who had talked to us about national pride and Christian brotherly love were the first to come to terms or actively collaborate with the Germans. It was an immense blow to my entire intellectual and emotional existence.”
“I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today.”
“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 be. I do not accept to be.”
“The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists, who as children we'd been taught to fear, kept a resistance movement alive, living and dying true to their ideals.”
“I compose for the common man, for our epoch.”
“We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world.”
“All the time I see things that remind me very much of the 1930s.”
“I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man.”
“I will continue to be critical of the system. Every honest patriot continues to fight against it.”
“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.”
“I'm an anti-Semite but I love Jews.”
“I've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert.”
“I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have an instinct toward knowledge.”