28 ordspråk av Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins
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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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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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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I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
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I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.
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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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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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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 was always a learning process.
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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 has still not gotten to the point where it is totally, the most, the greatest thing is happening in music.
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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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