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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 improvisation or soloing."

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Akshay Vasu

"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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Akshay Vasu

"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."

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Akshay Vasu

"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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Akshay Vasu

"It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there."

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Akshay Vasu

"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

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Akshay Vasu

"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."

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Akshay Vasu

"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."

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Akshay Vasu

"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."

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Akshay Vasu

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

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

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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?"

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

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

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

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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."

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Jan Hammer
"The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone."

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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 improvisation or soloing."

Music

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

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

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