Yanni Quotes

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing
you are stretching ... You are going outside your immediate grasp.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

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

We're all capable if we have faith and passion.

I've always lived in the moment.

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

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

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

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

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

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 really and truly believe that music represents humanity's soul.

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

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

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

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

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

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

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.

There's a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

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

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

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

I don't really like to explain my songs.

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.

I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.

If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.

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

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.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.

I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.

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.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

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

The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.

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

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.