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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: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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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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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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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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We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.
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My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
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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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The love I have for my daughter is completely unconditional, and it is the most important love in my life.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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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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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 have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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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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Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.
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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 just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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