Yanni Quotes

I never learned to read music.

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

I just can't read music.

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

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

I know how to read music, watching my mom and listening to Mom play music.

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 played piano, I learned a lot about music.

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. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

I'm a composer like every maestro on this earth.

Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

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'm an interpreter of music.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even 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.

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

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 never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

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.