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Yanni Biography

Yiannis Chryssomallis (Greek: Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης, Giánnis Chrysomállis; born November 14, 1954), known professionally as Yanni (/ˈjɑːni/ YAH-nee), is a Greek composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer who has spent his adult life in the United States.

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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.

Accomplishment, Given, Mind, School, Traps

If you leave yourself open to learning, then you can benefit and enjoy an incredibly rewarding and insightful experience. These experiences are the driving force in my life, and they keep me alive and inspire not only my music but also my everyday life.

Everyday, Insightful, Inspire, Learning, Life

I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

Choice, Choices, Optimist, Stupidity

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

Creative, Love, Mind, Optimism, Possibility

There are so many messages and lessons that I have been taught that I would want to share with people. Perhaps one that is very present in my mind now is the concept that we are all living on this one tiny planet that we call Earth. It is very small and is not getting any bigger, but the amount of people living on this planet continues to grow at a rapid rate.

Lessons, Living, Mind, People, Taught

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.

Artist, Career, Grateful, Live Concerts, Stopped

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

Give, Giving, Giving Up, Old, Room, Rooms

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

Beings, Connection, Connections, Mind, Minds, Very Deep

In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.

Greek, Type, Use, Word, Words

It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.

Composer, People, Soul, Speak, Strange

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.

Drink, Included, Life, Motivational, Music

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.

Abilities, Father, Life, Pain, Served

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

Believed, Enough Time, Good, Long, Time, Work

I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.

Believe, Evolving, Important, Mind, Minds, Stop

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

Color, Colors, Creating, Emotional, Like

We're all capable if we have faith and passion.

Capable, Faith, Ifs, Passion

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.

Emotions, Events, Past, Regret, Single, Time

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

Human, Instrumental, Music, Use, Voice, Writing

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.

Barefoot, Beach, Happy, Life Is Good, Simple

My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.

Able, Came, Heal, Love, Mother

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