Yanni Quotes

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!

I believe that experimenting is what production is. But it doesn't mean much if you don't have a solid foundation in what you're experimenting with. You can't really deviate from music unless you know music; it's not gonna work.

All my songs encapsulate a particular emotion.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have to dedicate myself to just one kind of genre, I would feel kind of gypped. I'd be like, man, I wish I could do this or that. And really all it takes is trying it out.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.