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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
Yanni
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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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.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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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.
Yanni
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 environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
Yanni
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 name.
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