Jan Hammer Quotes & Sayings

13 most famous Jan Hammer quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 76 year old American musician born on Apr 17, 1948.

“The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.”

“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.”

“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 improvisation or soloing.”

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

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

“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.”