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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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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
Love
Exerted
Forces
Lifetime
Least
Powerful
Force

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I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.
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We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.
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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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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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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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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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It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.
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