Billy Higgins Quotes

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.

The United States is a beautiful place, you know?