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I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.

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Yanni
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
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Represents
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Humanity
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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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If you leave yourself open to learning, then you can benefit and enjoy an incredibly rewarding and insightful experience. These experiences are the driving force in my life, and they keep me alive and inspire not only my music but also my everyday life.
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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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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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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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The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.
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The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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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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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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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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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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We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.
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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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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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You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.
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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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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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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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