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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.
Yanni
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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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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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I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.
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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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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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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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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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Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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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 greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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