Yanni Quotes

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.

When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

When I fall, I fall hard.

When I get into relationships, I'm an all-or-nothing person. I just completely give in to the person. It becomes my first priority in life; family, friends and career follow.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Acting, taken to the highest level, requires a fierce, total focus of your time and energy at the cost of just about everything else.

When you get a young group of people that believe, are passionate... and committed to a single purpose, you better look out. Great things can happen.

I play hard all the time and bring a lot of energy to the table.

The only way to play football is with reckless abandon, or they'll knock your beard off. And with acting, you have to pull all the stops to make it work.

The band will always be our number one, and I don't see it ever stopping. We love playing, so why would we want to stop?

I hate to do anything halfway so I leave the guitar alone.

I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent.

Everything I involve myself with is an extension of me, so I take everything super seriously, from the music to the shows. That's the only way to do it.

I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.

For me, in green and gold, it must be everything or nothing.

I despise lackadaisical behavior when it comes to our music. I mean, this is heavy metal music. You must be involved. You're required to be involved.

For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

We wouldn't last a year on the road playing music that we didn't love.

I love the game. I'm never going to stop loving it.

I make sure that everyone on the team and in my band really love music. They live for music, and it's our whole life, and we choose it to be so.