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1. 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.
2. When you hear ‘Truth of Touch,’ I believe you recognize that it is me; however it’s not the typical Yanni album.
3. 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.
4. You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don’t ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
5. Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
6. When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
7. 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 — it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
8. Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
9. It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
10. 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.
11. I do listen to a lot of music, but I don’t listen when I’m writing.
12. With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
13. 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.
14. I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
15. If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
16. While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
17. 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.
18. I don’t really like to explain my songs.
19. And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody’s asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
20. 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.