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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.
Yanni
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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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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 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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My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.
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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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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.
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I’ve always lived in the moment.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
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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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If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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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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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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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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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'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
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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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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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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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