Billy Higgins Quotes
"You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: First, Voice)
"There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: Music, Kids, World)
"The United States is a beautiful place, you know?"
- Billy Higgins
(Related: states, United)
"The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: History, People, Jazz, Musicians, states, United)
"The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: Music)
"The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: Time, Jazz)
"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
(Related: God, Creation, First, Jazz)
"Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: Music, Help, Jazz, Needs)
"It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: Now, Right, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: People)
"If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: Music, People)
"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
(Related: Question, Tools)
"I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: People, Being)
"I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: Europe)
"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
(Related: Music, People, Jazz)
"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
(Related: Art, Culture, Idiots, Kids, Now)
"Music. It's all creativity right here, right now."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: Music, Creativity, Now, Right)