Quotes About Yanni

Okay, I have an extensive collection of Yanni CD's. Do I like his music? Yeah, I must admit that I do enjoy quite a bit of it, and I do realize that trained classical musicians cannot stand his music. As bad as they think it is, surely it must be better than Britney Spears, a "woman" whose CD's you will never find in my collection. But that's all beside the point. As much as I enjoy Yanni's music, some of the things people have said about him really make me roll in the floor with laughter. I was sitting in an IHOP not thirty minutes ago, thought of the first quote in the list below, and busted out laughing while sitting all by myself at a table. The people in the table next to me scooted over in their seats so as to be a couple of inches further away from me.

Well, classical music aficionado friends of mine think I should throw all my Yanni CD's into the trash along with all my other new age CD's since they will continue to pollute my mind. But I've been listening to new age music since the mid-to-late 80's. I can't just throw it all away in one fell swoop. Still, new age music, while there still seems to be something missing from it, still sets better with me than pop music, so I continue listening.

That said, enjoy this collection of quotes I've discovered about Yanni:

The ability to hold down a chord on a synthesizer and swing your hair to and fro until you get applause is a talent, but it doesn't belong in a music discussion. (Source)

Incidentally, the guy must end up with whiplash after his concerts the way he throws his head and hair back all the time - at least that's what he did the one time I saw him on PBS at Red Rocks (Source)

I either heard or read somewhere that one of the musicians who accompanies Yawni on his concerts made a remark that he was totally bored out of his mind while playing Yawni's "music". (Source)

My only experience of Yanni, and I don't want any more thank you very much, was to have my channel switching interrupted by his erm, arrangement? of the Flower duet from Lakme. There was a certain grim fascination in the sheer awfulness of it. The singers had clearly been chosen for looks, as their voices would not have been out of place on "Swingin' Safari". (Source)

Or the worst possible: The three tenors sing the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber arranged by John Tesh and Yanni. (Source)