Yanni famous quotes

Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.
-- Yanni

#Spiritual #Hurt #Stress

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.
-- Yanni

#Writing #Frustration #Waiting

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

#Dream #Giving Up #Fall

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

#Mind #Connections #Very Deep

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

#Battle #Important #Conquer

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

#Love #Powerful #Lifetime

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

#Pain #Father #Years

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

#Trying #Life Is Precious #Problem

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.
-- Yanni

#Our World #Humanity #Overcoming

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

#Dream #Answers #Dreams Come True

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

#Passion #Needs #Talent

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

#Creativity #Order #Quality

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

#Faith #Passion #Have Faith

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

#Believe #Greatness

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

#Optimism #Creative #Mind

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

#Believe #I Believe #Responsible

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.
-- Yanni

#Beach #Life Is Good #Simple

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.
-- Yanni

#Order #Want #Needs

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

#Giving Up #Giving #Rooms

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

#Fishing #Want #Problem

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.
-- Yanni

#Impact #Goal #People

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

#Grateful #Artist #Careers

Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other hand, give us access to millions of sounds. When I put the two together, the result is unique, and it’s not only pleasing to the ear, but produces emotional responses that neither of the two can achieve on their own.
-- Yanni

#Unique #Emotional #Hands

When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.
-- Yanni

#Reflection #People #Creative

It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.
-- Yanni

#People #Soul #Strange

Ever since I left Greece more than two decades ago, it has been my dream to return and perform at the Acropolis. This project took more than a year and a half to plan and accomplish, and I would like to thank my band and crew and the scores of people involved in helping my dream become a reality.
-- Yanni

#Dream #Reality #Years

Well, besides being entertained, I’d like to move them emotionally. I mean I really want to uplift them. I want to look down at the audience, and this is personal experiences now I’m going to tell you. It’s like you look down at the audience and see people smiling, crying, hugging each other. I want them on their way home to feel empowered like they can do anything.
-- Yanni

#Uplifting #Moving #Mean

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.
-- Yanni

#Humanity #Mind #Capacity

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

#Inspiration #Genius #Adages

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

#Sight #Matter #Who You Are

I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.
-- Yanni

#Believe #Humanity #Soul

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

#Love #Cold #Hungry

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

#Knowing Who You Are #House #Bigs

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
-- Yanni

#Single #Regret #Past

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

#Understanding #Listening #Use

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

#Kindness #Creativity #Compassion

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

#Emotional #Color #Creating

I don't really like to explain my songs.
-- Yanni

#Song

I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.
-- Yanni

#Differences #Making A Difference #Way

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

#Men #Long #Use

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

#Balance #Hours #Hundred

It’s like flight, you’re flying… When you’re hitting something that’s turning you on, you get goose bumps. It’s a rush. It’s very exciting and that’s what I’m hoping to do to the audience.
-- Yanni

#Flying #Hitting #Bumps

It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.
-- Yanni

#Rehearsal #Dresses #Life Is

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

#Mean #Littles #Doing You

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

#Numbers #Elements #Truth Is

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

#Writing #Speech #Able

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

#Writing #Voice #Use

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

#Uplifting #Teacher #Children

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

#Risk #Succeed #Management

I’ve always lived in the moment.
-- Yanni

#Moments

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

#Believe #Mind #Quality

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

#School #Accomplishment #Mind

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

#Hard Work #Long #Enough Time

I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
-- Yanni

#Stupidity #Choices #Optimist

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.
-- Yanni

#School #Piano #Fingers

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

#Men #Boys #Problem