Yanni Best Quotes & Sayings

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

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

This one guy, the worse guy in the music. The Yanni man. You know Yanni? First of all, anyone who looks like a magician and doesn't do magic, I don't like. I don't even like magic, I hate it. But I love the word, "Ta-da"! I love that word! I don't get to say it, right? I never do any magic. You just cant go around walking, "Ta-da!" "Ta-da!" "Ta-da!" The only time I can say it is when I do something really stupid or surprising. Like if I go out all night drinking and hitting strip clubs and I come home and I still got some money ... "Ta
da!" I thought I was broke. Why does my jaw hurt? — Dave Attell

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

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

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

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself. — Yanni

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well. — Yanni

The live concerts are everything and I'm very grateful that most of my career, I'm a live artist, I've been doing this. So I've traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing. — Yanni

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

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. — Yanni

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

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

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. — Yanni

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

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

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. — Yanni

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. — Yanni

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

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. — Yanni

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

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

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works. — Yanni

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. — Yanni

YANNI "JOHNNY" BACOLAS: I would always tell him, "Layne [Staley], why don't you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the best counselors, and just kick this shit? Go for six months if you have to." And his rebuttal was, "Johnny, I have celebrity status and I have a lot of money. I could fly planes out to deliver me the dope if I wanted to - and that's what I would do. I can't escape. — Greg Prato

My wife forever has made fun of my Yanni CD that I had in college. — Christopher Gorham

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

Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver. — Yanni

Going to the school to meet the visually impaired was special. I thought I was inspiring them. I was thinking what I could possibly say to inspire them. Instead of me inspiring them, I felt they inspired me. They showed me how much courage they have, and how hard these teachers are working for these children. They made me feel like I don't have any problems in life. It gave me uplift. They made me feel so great. — Yanni

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. — Yanni

Aldus Barnes, a structural engineer by training and member of the Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU) at Arup, has formed many successful collaborations and earned a prominent place for himself in architecture by adopting the language and skills of architects. "Talk in terms of texture and density, instead of torsion and shear. That way they don't think you are just another nerd," Barnes advises the young members of his team. — Yanni Alexander Loukissas

An unmentored daughter is an unnurtured daughter, unnurtured in the strength she needs to Survive as an original woman in this world. Daughters, as compared to sons in a hetero-relational family, are more undernurtured in all ways by mothers and pressured prematurely to become nurturers of others - mostly of men. What also happens in this context, as Denice Yanni has pointed out, is "a silencing of woman's own needs for nurturing by making her the primary nurturer. — Janice G. Raymond