Jan Hammer Quotes (17 Quotes)


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

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

    Maybe there'll be new bits of music that will start showing up. You know Like what happened in the 60s. Everything just broke wide open. Music started getting connected between Jazz and Rock and Pop. Everything was wide open, there was much more freedom. Hopefully something like that will happen again.

    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.

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


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

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

    The writing is not as important as how the people who are playing, play together, how they clicked and where we took it with improvisation.

    There was this curtain, the Iron Curtain, and it was keeping out interesting, cutting-edge music. But other than that, it was pretty normal.

    If you think about it, the word composing or to compose, means to put together. So, you have to know what to put together and what to leave out.

    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.

    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.

    The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

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

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

    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?

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


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