About Yanni: Yiannis Chryssomallis is a Greek-American composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer who has spent his adult life in the United States.
New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one ...
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with ne...
The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
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.
When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environ...
I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.
With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
