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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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Yanni
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
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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 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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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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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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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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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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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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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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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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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
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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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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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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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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.
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Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.
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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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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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