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I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
Yanni
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Yanni
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Giannis Chrysomallis
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.
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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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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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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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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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We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.
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You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.
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