Yanni Quotes

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I write music visually.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I'm an interpreter of music.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I never learned to read music.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more and more stuff where he has to play the piano. But you know, to be very honest, I actually went into music because I wanted to be a composer and a conductor. And piano was just one of the ways to get into that.

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

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.