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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: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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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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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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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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I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.
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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 just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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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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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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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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In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.
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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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I’ve always lived in the moment.
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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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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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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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All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.
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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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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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