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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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Many
Love
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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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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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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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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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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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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 believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
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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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You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
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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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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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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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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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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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I’ve always lived in the moment.
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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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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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