Quotes by Demis Roussos - Page 1

Abba and me, we were the 70s.
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Abba
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My music was liked by the people.
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By The People
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Even Andy Warhol had a copy of '666.'
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Warhol
Andy
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You know, I am very versatile in music.
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Versatile
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I can't conquer all the world at the same time.
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Conquer
All The World
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I'm a romantic singer. That's my nook, my motif.
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Nook
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I own a private yacht, private jet and a private lion.
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Jet
Yacht
Lion
Private
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Food is like music. You've got two kinds, good and bad.
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Good And Bad
Good Music Food
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The one thing I cannot support in a woman is stupidity.
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Stupidity
Support
The One Thing
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I love women, I always liked women - no secret about that.
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Secret
Love Women Always
Liked
No Secret
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I am not like any other singer in America - I am a new creation.
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Creation
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The women in Europe think I'm the Beatles, they throw me flowers.
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Flowers
Throw
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My father had it, my mother had it; we wanted to entertain people.
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Father People Mother
Entertain
Entertain People
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I am a unique kind of personage and voice! No one else is like me!
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Personage
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Australian wine and Australian women - that's my weak point. Ha ha ha ha.
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Australian
Weak
Wine
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I don't have any regrets. I have made over 60 million people happy with my records.
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Million People
Regrets
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I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes.
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Painter
Periods
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In 1975 I had the award for the top male artist, the award for top single, the award for top album.
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Award
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I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.
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Jazz Musician
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The reason for my big success in England was the Brits - they started wanting to go on holidays, like Spain and Greece.
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Brits
England
Greece
Reason
Spain
Big Success
Holidays
Wanting
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I want America to see me as a combination of the Rev. Sun Moon and a singing star. That's the image I want them to have.
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Combination
Moon
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My music came right on time. It was romantic Mediterranean music addressed to all the people who wanted to go on holiday.
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Holiday
Mediterranean
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I consider all my songs as my children and I don't think any father gets tired of his children, otherwise he's not a good father.
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Good Father
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One day I had an instinct to put on a kaftan and go out and sing. People liked it out of the blue. An artist should be instinctive.
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Instinct
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Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.
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Teacher
Beautiful Music
Preacher
Mediator
Musicians
Transfer
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The human race is getting into a spiritual way of thinking, even if they don't know about it, because this is the natural need of the human being.
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Human Race
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It is not every day that a pop superstar gets involved with terrorism as a victim, so the press takes advantage of that to say things they think are funny.
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Funny
Advantage
Involved
Superstar
Terrorism
Every Day
Gets
Press
Takes
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In this life, you have three kinds of persons the winners, the losers, and the third ones, they're the ones who don't even know why they're born. I'm a winner.
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Losers
Winners
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I'm obsessed with 666 because the best way to fight your enemy is to know him, and of course my enemy is the devil, as it should be every sensible man's enemy.
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Best Way
Sensible
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In Europe they love me. I travel so much, I change my passport twice a year because there aren't enough pages for all the places I go. Foreign countries invite me to come without a visa.
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Foreign Countries
Pages
Visa
Love Me
Passport
Invite
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When I went to England the first time, everyone asked the same question - how come you're so big in Europe and nothing in England. And I told them that all the continents, they're coming, one by one.
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Continents
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Back in '75 I had five albums in the top 10. Simultaneously. And among them the number one album and the number one single. And my name was mentioned twice or three times in the Guinness Book of Records.
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Book
Five
Guinness
Records
Three
Twice
Album
Among
Number
Mentioned
Simultaneously
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I am basically a folk singer because I'm coming from a part of the earth where folklore means a lot. The Mediterranean is a very old part of the world, and the more a place is old, the more there is folklore.
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Folklore
Folk
Folk Singer
Mediterranean
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Sleep is the secret of life! I must have a comfortable bed, a room at exactly 60 degrees, and complete darkness like a tomb to sleep. If I don't get 10 hours, then I'm miserable and I make everyone around me miserable.
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Degrees
Miserable
The Secret Of
Tomb
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I am somebody who believes that every political direction is valid, as with every religion. The basis of Christianity is perfect, just like the basis of Islam. But then the leaders change the direction, and lose the quality.
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Christianity
Islam
Believes
Valid
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In the countries where they don't know me, which is only America, wherever I go, the hotel, the restaurant, the airport, people go, 'Oh, my! What's that?' That's good. That's good, because there is a curiosity there, which is great.
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Curiosity
Hotel
Good Great Me
Airport
Restaurant
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Everything that happens in the life of a human being, especially artists, who are supposed to be more sensitive, yes, it can affect you. In Lebanon I saw 10- and 12-year-old kids walking around with guns, and I understood how much human actions affect people.
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Human Actions
Lebanon
Sensitive
Affect
Guns
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The only thing I could do was play music, because I'd studied classical guitar, trumpet and piano at the American School in Alexandria. So I started out with two other boys in little clubs in Athens. I became a singer by default when our lead vocalist was late one night. Someone had to sing.
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Alexandria
Athens
Classical Guitar
Clubs
Default
Vocalist
Classical
Trumpet
Play Music
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