Quotes by Jan Hammer

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 not going to happen.

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom

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 improvisation or soloing.

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom

I'm so far removed from live playing any more.

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

— Jan Hammer

Life

You never know what you find once you really get going.

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom

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 of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom

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, on my own. You know what I mean?

— Jan Hammer

Wisdom