Words matter. These are the best Yanni Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t really like to explain my songs.
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.
I do listen to a lot of music, but I don’t listen when I’m writing.
There is no gender to my music. There’s no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It’s much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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 accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don’t ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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.
When you hear ‘Truth of Touch,’ I believe you recognize that it is me; however it’s not the typical Yanni album.
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it’s as if I’m singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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.
And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody’s asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
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.
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.