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Yanni Inspirational Quotes (100)

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Continuing to create music and perform is so important to me for many reasons. I love the interaction and connection I get with people when we perform live. Nothing is more rewarding for me.
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Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.
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The studio work that I do allows me to connect with people around the world. You can't perform live for everyone, so having the ability to share my creative vision with others is very important to me as well.
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Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.
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In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.
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The love I have for my daughter is completely unconditional, and it is the most important love in my life.
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I don't dwell in the past I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
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My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
Yannick Noah
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You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
Yannick Noah
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
Yannick Noah
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The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
Yannick Noah
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It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
Yannick Noah
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After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.
Yannick Noah
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I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.
Yannis Philippakis
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You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics I wanted to squirm.
Yannis Philippakis
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I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.
Yannis Philippakis
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I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.
Yannis Philippakis
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When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
Yannis Philippakis
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By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.
Yannis Philippakis
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I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so heavily that there's no humanity left in it.
Yannis Philippakis
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We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.
Yanni
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