Yanni Quotes

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Yanni

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 14, 1954

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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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I don't really like to explain my songs.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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