Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
Quotes to Explore
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.
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I don't know whether they will give me a project just because I am cooperative and behave nicely, but it really helps. I never demand for anything or never throw tantrums at work.
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I'd love to play a villain in BBC drama 'Sherlock' - some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street.
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I like to go and watch 'Blade Runner,' which made no sense but which I loved going into that world. I think people loved going into the world of 'Dune' with all of its problems.
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If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.
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I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.
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As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
