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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
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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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The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.
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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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I’ve always lived in the moment.
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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 think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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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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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 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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I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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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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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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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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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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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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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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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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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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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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It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.
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