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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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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
Able
Music
Writing
Illiterate
Speech
Read
Write

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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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I’ve always lived in the moment.
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I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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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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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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I don't dwell in the past I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
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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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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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I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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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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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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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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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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We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.
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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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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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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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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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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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