Billy Higgins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Voice #Firsts #Instruments
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

#Real #Japan #Situation
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
-- Billy Higgins

#Needs #Tvs #Helping
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
-- Billy Higgins

#People #Encounters #Playing Music
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

#Tools #Defeated
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

#Care #Jazz #Backgrounds
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

#Art #Kids #Culture
I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.
-- Billy Higgins

#Japan #Europe #Littles
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
-- Billy Higgins

#Boots #Levels #Approach
I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
-- Billy Higgins

#People #Vision #Young
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
-- Billy Higgins

#Music #Japan #People
Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
-- Billy Higgins

#Beautiful #Kids #World
The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.
-- Billy Higgins

#Long #Jazz

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