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
From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I just want to spearhead and lead a new style of New Orleans music. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don't like people sitting down. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go around the world, we have fans of New Orleans. Sometimes we go places, and people don't really know who… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I listen to Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, U2, and it becomes part of me, comes out in my music. Wherever it… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
The only thing we try and do is just be a part of the gumbo that New Orleans is. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
In New Orleans, we celebrate everything. It's probably the only place you'll see people dancing in a funeral home. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter where we are. We can be marching down the streets of New Orleans, or we can be onstage in… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
No matter what setting I play in, I will always be New Orleans. It's one of the only cities where you can… — 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
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
We come from New Orleans, so everything is emotional - for, once the music takes over, and we start blowing, we go… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
We're not really trying to do anything besides represent where we come from, and that's New Orleans. — 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
You've got different people that have different views of New Orleans. When you say 'New Orleans,' you have people who just think… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda like the Roots… — 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
