Zitat des Tages von Billy Higgins:
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
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.
I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.
It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.
It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.
I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.
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.
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.
There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
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.
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
