Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins
Billy Higginswas an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth11 October 1936
CountryUnited States of America
people vision young
I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
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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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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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The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.
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Jazz has still not gotten to the point where it is totally, the most, the greatest thing is happening in music.
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Everything else, they can listen to over the radio and know how to do it. Jazz seems to be a little more complicated.
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Not just younger people but older people, too, because the drums are that kind of instrument where people are not intimidated.
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If everybody gets in there and sees that and understands that, then it lets them know that they're all human beings and creatures of God.
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Look, jazz has always had, because of its origins, that's the only reason. It's the only reason it's like that. Where it came from. It's not accepted.
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Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.
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The United States is a beautiful place, you know?
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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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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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It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.