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Billy Higgins [1936-2001] American

Rank: 103
Musician, Drummer

Billy Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.

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You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.		101
Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.		102
The United States is a beautiful place, you know?		103
It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.		104
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.		105
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.		106
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.		107
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.		108
I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.		109
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.		110
There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.		111
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.		112
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.		113
I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.		114
The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.		115
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.		116
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.		117
It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.		118

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