Billy Higgins

The United States is a beautiful place, you know?

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

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.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

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.

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.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.