Yiannis Chryssomallis Quotes
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I would like to leave you with a couple of thoughts:
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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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 just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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All I had to do was do it.
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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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Endurance is mind over matter.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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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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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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I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.
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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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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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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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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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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 good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.