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I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.
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I tend to stay up very late at night, so I wake up later in the day. This allows me to be in the middle of my workday when I am onstage at night.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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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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I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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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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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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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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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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I don't dwell in the past I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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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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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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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 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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It’s like flight, you’re flying… When you’re hitting something that’s turning you on, you get goose bumps. It’s a rush. It’s very exciting and that’s what I’m hoping to do to the audience.
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If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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