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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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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to 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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I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.
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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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Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.
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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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Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.
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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 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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You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.
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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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I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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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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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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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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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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