Yanni

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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