Music Quotes by Trombone Shorty

Music should be pushed forward.

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Music brings unity.

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That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music.

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Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?

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I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music.

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All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.

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Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.

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I'm very proud of my band and my musicians.

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Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them.

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I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth.

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Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.

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As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.

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People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

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Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

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We really practice music and work really hard. Sometimes we'll leave at six in the morning, and we started at three the…

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We didn't know music had all these names. We made up SupaFunkRock on a plane when a flight attendant asked us what…

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I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of…

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Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.

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If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never…

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Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what…

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Music in New Orleans has always been the heartbeat that drives the city. It was that even before Katrina, and that's what…

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I spent a lot of time with the Neville Brothers and Dr. John and different people. They play different styles of music,…

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It was just music all day... My neighbors were musicians, and my brother and my family and everybody... It was just a…

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Sometimes it's very hard for other New Orleans musicians to break out. It starts with the musician. They have to be willing…

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I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would listen to Juvenile or…

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I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out…

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Whenever we can, we try to talk to students. If I can, I'll invite kids from a school to a sound check…

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In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and…

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I just want to spearhead and lead a new style of New Orleans music.

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I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy.

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At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means.

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It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music.

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It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me.

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I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played.…

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I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills.

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I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.

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Music for us is a place of joy. Bringin' joy... that's what we are all about.

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We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach…

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The music always takes us to different places. We'll just continue to play and see what doors open from there.

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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…

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