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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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.