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

Yanni

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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
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Fishes
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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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I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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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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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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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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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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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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We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.
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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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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.
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