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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.
Yanni
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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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I’ve always lived in the moment.
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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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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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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'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.
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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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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'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
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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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I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.
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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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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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