Yanni
A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.Collection: Mean
I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.Collection: Believe
I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.Collection: Love Is
I learned from my parents to do my best to not react to negative emotions. I try to think about what has happened and find the lessons that can be learned from these difficult experiences. I try to deal with these negative emotions right away because, if they stay inside, they can hurt and do a lot of damage. I release them as soon as possible so I can be free.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Impact
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.Collection: Unique
I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.Collection: Believe
I’ve always lived in the moment.Collection: Moments
Continuing to create music and perform is so important to me for many reasons. I love the interaction and connection I get with people when we perform live. Nothing is more rewarding for me.Collection: People
I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.Collection: Believe
I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.Collection: Funny
In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.Collection: Greek
We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Uplifting
Perhaps the most important contribution to me being centered in the midst of this chaos is my daughter, Krystal Ann. I am very lucky because she works with me and is responsible for many aspects of the business on the marketing side of my career. This allows us to travel together and experience life on the road, seeing the world. Having family with me is very important and grounding.Collection: Daughter
My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.Collection: Mother
We're all capable if we have faith and passion.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: School
The love I have for my daughter is completely unconditional, and it is the most important love in my life.Collection: Daughter
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.Collection: Night
You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.Collection: Giving Up
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.Collection: Single
That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.Collection: Inspiration
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.Collection: Reflection
I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.Collection: Differences
My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’Collection: Father
It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.Collection: Dresses
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.Collection: Daughter
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Careers
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.Collection: Uplifting
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: School
You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Flying
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.Collection: Grateful
I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.Collection: Risk
Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.Collection: Love