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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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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
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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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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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