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You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.
Yanni
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Yanni
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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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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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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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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I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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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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As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
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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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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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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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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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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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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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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 think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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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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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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We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.
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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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