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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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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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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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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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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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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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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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I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.
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I tend to stay up very late at night, so I wake up later in the day. This allows me to be in the middle of my workday when I am onstage at night.
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I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.
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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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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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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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The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
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It’s like flight, you’re flying… When you’re hitting something that’s turning you on, you get goose bumps. It’s a rush. It’s very exciting and that’s what I’m hoping to do to the audience.
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I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.
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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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