The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
Billy Higgins

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

The United States is a beautiful place, you know?
Billy Higgins

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

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.
Billy Higgins

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

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

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.
Billy Higgins