Billy Higgins quotes
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“You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.”
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“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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“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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“If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.”
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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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“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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“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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“I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.”
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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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“I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.”
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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.”
-- Billy HigginsSource : "The Great Theft". Interview with Melanie Colburn, www.motherjones.com. November 18, 2005.
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“Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.”
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“The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.”
-- Billy Higgins
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