Nana Mouskouri Quotes

I blew my voice out and the doctor said, don't even talk for a week.

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

There is one thing I should say, and it's important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind - lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.

I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.

I had many orthopedic surgeries.

I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side.

If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.

I try not to talk during the day when I have a show that night. My voice is my instrument, just like a saxophonist's instrument is his saxophone, plus also his voice, if he's the one between tunes that makes announcements.

If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.

If I am able to sing again it will be through some miracle operation. There's a lot of work being done to help singers regain their voices, but in my case I actually lost vocal tissue so it's very hard for my chords to rub together and I need to replace that tissue. I remain optimistic but not tremendously so.

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.