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?
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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
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
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.
Jan Hammer
My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
Jan Hammer
There was this curtain, the Iron Curtain, and it was keeping out interesting, cutting-edge music. But other than that, it was pretty normal.
Jan Hammer
You never know what you find once you really get going.
Jan Hammer
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