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
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.
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.
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.
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.
intelligence run
Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.
american-musician
It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.
american-musician people
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.
american-musician few god
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.
american-musician
The United States is a beautiful place, you know?
people races
It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.
american-musician
Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.
voice firsts instruments
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.