Billy Higgins Quotes & Sayings

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

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice. — Billy Higgins

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

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

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. — Billy Higgins

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

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

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. — Billy Higgins

The United States is a beautiful place, you know? — Billy Higgins

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different. — Billy Higgins

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

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together. — Billy Higgins

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

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. — Billy Higgins

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you. — Billy Higgins

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

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

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now. — Billy Higgins

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. — Billy Higgins