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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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Moments
Always

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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'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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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 want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
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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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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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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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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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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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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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Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.
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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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Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.
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I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
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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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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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