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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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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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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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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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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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My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.
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There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.
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I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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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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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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My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’
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I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.
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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 don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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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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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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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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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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I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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