Quotes by Jan Hammer

CDs, as a physical product, are almost finished. Basically it's going to be Wide World of Online.

If you think about it, the word composing or to compose, means to put together. So, you have to know what to put together and what to leave out.

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?

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.

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