Yanni Quotes

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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.
• Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.
• All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.
• You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
• That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
• Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing…
• You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
• We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
• I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
• While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
• Going to the school to meet the visually impaired was special. I thought I was inspiring them. I was thinking what I could possibly say…
• 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…
• 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…
• I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.
• The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.
• 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…
• I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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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