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Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.
Yanni
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Yanni
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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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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A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.
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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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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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I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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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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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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My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
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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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Ever since I left Greece more than two decades ago, it has been my dream to return and perform at the Acropolis. This project took more than a year and a half to plan and accomplish, and I would like to thank my band and crew and the scores of people involved in helping my dream become a reality.
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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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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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