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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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Yanni
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Composer
Pianist
Giannis Chrysomallis
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Greek
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My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’
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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 am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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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 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 realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.
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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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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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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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It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.
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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 need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
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The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.
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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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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 father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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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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