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I’ve always lived in the moment.

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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
Lived
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with 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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We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.
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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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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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It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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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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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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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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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 realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.
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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 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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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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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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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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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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