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" If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys. "

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" 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 new core mendin sounds. "

" And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me. "

" I don't really like to explain my songs. "

" Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music. "

" While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. "

" I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing. "

" It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music. "

" You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it. "

" With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure. "

" When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album. "

" Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour. "

" 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. "

" I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports. "

" 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. "

" Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts. "

" Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. "

" 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. "