Yanni Quotes

Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.

I don’t really like to explain my songs.

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.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don’t listen when I’m writing.

I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.

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.

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.

Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody’s asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone’s mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we’re all the same.

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

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.

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

When you hear ‘Truth of Touch,’ I believe you recognize that it is me; however it’s not the typical Yanni album.

I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.

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.

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you’ll create the talent.

I’m an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture – it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.