Yanni Quotes

1. “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.”

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

3. “You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.”

4. “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.”

5. “I don't really like to explain my songs.”

6. “It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.”

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

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

9. “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.”

10. “When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.”

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

12. “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.”

13. “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.”

14. “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.”

15. “While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.”

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

17. “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.”

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

19. “New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.”

20. “Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.”