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I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
Optimist
Stupidity
Choice
Choices

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I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.
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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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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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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 most important battle is one to conquer yourself.
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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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The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
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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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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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You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
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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 have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.
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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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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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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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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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