Billy Higgins Quotes

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.

I'm a great jazz fan.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.