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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

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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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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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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 most important battle is one to conquer yourself.
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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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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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I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.
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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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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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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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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 believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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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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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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I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.
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I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
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All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.
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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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I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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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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