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. – Jan Hammer
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? – 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
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
The band couldn’t have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst. – Jan Hammer
