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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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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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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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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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Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.
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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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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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Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.
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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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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 most important battle is one to conquer yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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