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

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Yanni
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
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Painting
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Music
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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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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 truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.
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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 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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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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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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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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I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
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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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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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I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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