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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
Yanni
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Yanni
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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If you leave yourself open to learning, then you can benefit and enjoy an incredibly rewarding and insightful experience. These experiences are the driving force in my life, and they keep me alive and inspire not only my music but also my everyday life.
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Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.
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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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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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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
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I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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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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In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.
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I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.
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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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The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.
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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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The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.
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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 know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.
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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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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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It’s like flight, you’re flying… When you’re hitting something that’s turning you on, you get goose bumps. It’s a rush. It’s very exciting and that’s what I’m hoping to do to the audience.
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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
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