Jan Hammer Quotes

14 quotes in 172 categories

• The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.
• Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
• I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.
• It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice…
• Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's…
• My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
• I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.
• Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.
• The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes…
• You never know what you find once you really get going.
• Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.
• I'm so far removed from live playing any more.
• It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse,…
• The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

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