Yanni Quotes

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

I like music when it makes you feel.

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.

The most incredible part of seeing people embrace and recognize my music is experiencing the lives of people when they are powerfully affected, encouraged, and personally impacted.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

On stage, it is a tremendous thing to be able to make people laugh. But one of the things that I have always loved is when I am in shows where you can turn the audience upside down and make them cry or move them. That is when things are the most rewarding.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

I want people to feel good after I sing.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.

I like music that just gives you goose bumps.