Tag: Yanni
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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.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Yanni
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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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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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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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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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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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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.
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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.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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