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

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

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

I don’t really like to explain my songs.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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.