The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

- Billy Higgins

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

- Billy Higgins

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

- 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.

- Billy Higgins

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

- Billy Higgins

Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

- Billy Higgins

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.

- Billy Higgins

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.

- Billy Higgins

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

- Billy Higgins