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
gotten greatest happening jazz point
Jazz has still not gotten to the point where it is totally, the most, the greatest thing is happening in music.
american-musician came jazz reason
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.
care jazz backgrounds
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.
long jazz long-time
The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.
jazz listen radio seems
Everything else, they can listen to over the radio and know how to do it. Jazz seems to be a little more complicated.
certain learning people tradition
To know the tradition of the music, you have to know about certain people and certain concepts. It's a learning process.
voice firsts instruments
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
beautiful kids world
Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
music japan people
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
people vision young
I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
levels boots approach
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
japan europe littles
I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.
art kids culture
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.
tools defeated ifs
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.