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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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Yanni
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
Life
Inside
Already
Greatest
Imagination
Free
Truth
Kindness
Things
Compassion
Love
Creativity

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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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The studio work that I do allows me to connect with people around the world. You can't perform live for everyone, so having the ability to share my creative vision with others is very important to me as 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 think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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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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My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’
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In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.
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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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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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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s 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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I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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Continuing to create music and perform is so important to me for many reasons. I love the interaction and connection I get with people when we perform live. Nothing is more rewarding for me.
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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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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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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 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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