Yanni Quotes

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

I always said that I want to sell out Madison Square Garden before I turn 21.

A collaboration with Rob Halford, the 'Metal God,' has always been my dream. I never imagined that dream would come true!

A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.

Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.

Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.

What he (Sammy Sosa) and I have been doing is fantastic. What we've done nobody in the game has done for thirty-seven years. I'm pretty happy with the way things have been going.

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

The definition of success is total preparation.

Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action - which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don't get stuck along the way.

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.

For me, each time I'm on stage, each time I'm working on a new album, it's like a dream. I can't believe it's happening.

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

There is the potential for dreams to come true, for records to be broken, and medals to be won, and at this time everyone believes that they individually have the potential to make their dream a reality.

I'm living a dream. I hope in 10 years people will know me as a gold medalist.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

Success doesn't sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.