A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp. Yanni More Quotes by Yanni More Quotes From Yanni It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well. Yanni rehearsallife-isdresses 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 accomplishmentmindschool I don't really like to explain my songs. Yanni song I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion. Yanni usemenlong If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys. Yanni problemmenboys 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 strangesoulpeople The love I have for my daughter is completely unconditional, and it is the most important love in my life. Yanni my-daughterdaughterimportant In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words. Yanni cardaughterlove-is Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself. Yanni importantsightbelieve There are so many messages and lessons that I have been taught that I would want to share with people. Perhaps one that is very present in my mind now is the concept that we are all living on this one tiny planet that we call Earth. It is very small and is not getting any bigger, but the amount of people living on this planet continues to grow at a rapid rate. Yanni lessonsmindpeople I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people. Yanni careerspeopleworld I tend to stay up very late at night, so I wake up later in the day. This allows me to be in the middle of my workday when I am onstage at night. Yanni middlewake-upnight With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure. Yanni getexposurehardmusic 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 namemusicagetogether 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. Yanni ownstorymusictime Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism. Yanni youmusicartistart When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album. Yanni meyoutruthbelieve When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place. Yanni placeyoumusicculture It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music. Yanni hownevermemusic And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me. Yanni justmepleasurenight
