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Jan Hammer

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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.


— Jan Hammer


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


— Jan Hammer


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


— Jan Hammer


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I'm so far removed from live playing any more.


— Jan Hammer


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


— Jan Hammer


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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?


— Jan Hammer


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


— Jan Hammer


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


— Jan Hammer


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


— Jan Hammer


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The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.


— Jan Hammer


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Did you know about Jan Hammer?

He aspired to follow his father into medicine until a family friend convinced him to develop his musical talents instead. The 1990s saw a renewed focus on scoring starting with I Come in Peace (a. Hammer's next two assignments contributed greatly to his next album.

Jan Hammer (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦamɛr]) (born 17 April 1948 in Prague then Czechoslovakia today the Czech Republic) is a composer pianist and keyboardist. 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.

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