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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.
Yanni
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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
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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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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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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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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.
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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
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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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I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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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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Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.
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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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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 believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.
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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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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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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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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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I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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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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