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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

Yanni

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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
Painting
Color
Sound
Music
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Colors
Sounds
Creating
Emotional

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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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I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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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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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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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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The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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I’ve always lived in the moment.
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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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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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We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.
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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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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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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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The love I have for my daughter is completely unconditional, and it is the most important love in my life.
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