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, like it’s not going to happ…

- Jan Hammer

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

- Jan Hammer

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

- Jan Hammer

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

- Jan Hammer

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

- Jan Hammer

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

- Jan Hammer

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 t…

- Jan Hammer

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

- Jan Hammer

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 im…

- Jan Hammer