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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.
Yanni
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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
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We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.
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All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.
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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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My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.
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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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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.
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I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.
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Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
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My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’
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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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I tend to stay up very late at night, so I wake up later in the day. This allows me to be in the middle of my workday when I am onstage at night.
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As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
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Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.
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I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
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