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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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Yanni
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
Truly
Anyone
Talk
Truth
Believe
Greatness

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We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.
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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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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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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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The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.
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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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I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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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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I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.
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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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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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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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Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.
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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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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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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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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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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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