Billy Higgins Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. The United States is a beautiful place, you know?

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

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

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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

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#18. 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.

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

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