Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes

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.

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• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

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• New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

  

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• I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

  

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• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

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• I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

  

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• It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

  

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• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

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• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

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• What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

  

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• Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

  

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• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  

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• I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'

  

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• Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

  

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• I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

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• I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

  

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• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  

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• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

  

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• In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.

  

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• These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

  

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• I'm for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one's son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that's the best lesson they can ever learn.

  

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• We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.

  

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• Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.

  

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• 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.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • People
  • Music
  • Soul