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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
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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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 truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.
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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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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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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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The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
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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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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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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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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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You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.
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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 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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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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