Yanni Quotes

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.

It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.

"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.

Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.

My Greek mythology is not strong enough.

You use sex to express every emotion except love.

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.