Yanni Quotes

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.

Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.

Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

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.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.

We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.

I truly believe greatness is in all of us. Don’t let anyone talk us out of our truth.

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.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.

My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

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

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.

We're all capable if we have faith and passion.

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.

I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

I’ve always lived in the moment.

I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.

I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.

I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.

We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.

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

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.

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.

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.

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.

My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't really like to explain my songs.

Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.

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

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