Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it? — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played.… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
We really practice music and work really hard. Sometimes we'll leave at six in the morning, and we started at three the… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
We didn't know music had all these names. We made up SupaFunkRock on a plane when a flight attendant asked us what… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time with the Neville Brothers and Dr. John and different people. They play different styles of music,… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
It was just music all day... My neighbors were musicians, and my brother and my family and everybody... It was just a… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Music in New Orleans has always been the heartbeat that drives the city. It was that even before Katrina, and that's what… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would listen to Juvenile or… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's very hard for other New Orleans musicians to break out. It starts with the musician. They have to be willing… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Whenever we can, we try to talk to students. If I can, I'll invite kids from a school to a sound check… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I just want to spearhead and lead a new style of New Orleans music. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
The music always takes us to different places. We'll just continue to play and see what doors open from there. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I've been playing music since I was four, so it's part of my life. It's all I know. It's just a part… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
'Supafunkrock' is a musical gumbo. We throw all those musical influences into the pot and put it out there. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Sometimes on my show, I just play something out of the blue, and the band picks up on it. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I've been studying some tape of James Brown… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I got a chance to work with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh and Juvenile and all these people as I was growing up, and so… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Life would be pretty boring if I didn't explore. It's about letting my ears take me on an adventure to soak in everything I… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Music in New Orleans has always been the heartbeat that drives the city. It was that even before Katrina, and that's what we had… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
