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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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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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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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I’ve always lived in the moment.
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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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I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
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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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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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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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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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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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Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.
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I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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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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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 love I have for my daughter is completely unconditional, and it is the most important love in my life.
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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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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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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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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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