Quotes by Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
Alive from: 1936-2001
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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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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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If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
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It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.
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It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.
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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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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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The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
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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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There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
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