"I think sometimes you are born with a song"
About this Quote
The intent is almost disarmingly modest. She doesn't say you're born a star or a genius; she says you're born with a song. That's smaller, more specific, and more humane. A song can be quiet. It can be folk-simple. It can belong to a community as much as an individual. The subtext pushes back against the modern obsession with reinvention, the pressure to constantly optimize the self. Mouskouri's persona has long leaned toward clarity and steadiness rather than shock value; this sentence keeps faith with that. It suggests that authenticity isn't a marketing tactic but a kind of fidelity: returning, again and again, to the melodic truth you started with.
Context matters, too. For an artist who navigated fame without the confessional theatrics expected of pop stardom, the quote doubles as a philosophy of endurance. If the song is innate, then the work isn't to manufacture feeling on demand; it's to protect it from noise, trend cycles, and the industry's appetite for novelty.
Quote Details
| Topic | Music |
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| Source | Help us find the source |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Mouskouri, Nana. (2026, January 16). I think sometimes you are born with a song. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-sometimes-you-are-born-with-a-song-108652/
Chicago Style
Mouskouri, Nana. "I think sometimes you are born with a song." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-sometimes-you-are-born-with-a-song-108652/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I think sometimes you are born with a song." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-sometimes-you-are-born-with-a-song-108652/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.



