Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with.
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.
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My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
