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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: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
Greatness
Truly
Anyone
Talk
Truth
Believe

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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.
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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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My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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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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I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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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 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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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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The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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