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I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
Yanni
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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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Continuing to create music and perform is so important to me for many reasons. I love the interaction and connection I get with people when we perform live. Nothing is more rewarding for me.
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I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
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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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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 truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.
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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 just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.
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Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.
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I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.
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I’ve always lived in the moment.
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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 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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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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If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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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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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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