Jan Hammer Quotes

• The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• I’m so far removed from live playing any more.

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

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

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• 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.

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Birth:	17th April, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Musician, Record Producer

About

Jan Hammer was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is a Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s program, Miami Vice. He has composed and produced at least 14 original motion picture soundtracks, the music for 90 episodes of Miami Vice and 20 episodes of the popular British television series Chancer. His compositions have won him several Grammy Awards. His albums list shown below: Like Children(with Jerry Goodman), The First Seven Days, Oh Yeah?, Melodies, Untold Passion(with Neal Schon), Here to Stay(with Neal Schon), List of Miami Vice soundtracks, Escape From Television, Beyond the Mind's Eye, and Drive.

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