When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what… — Trombone Shorty Entire life 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 Bored 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 Growing up Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was… — 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 Day 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
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
There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
No matter what kinds of problems we might be going through, or what kinds of problems the world might be going through,… — 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 Food Copy Share Image
Whenever I go jamming, people are looking to cut me. The young ones learn my stuff and come play it at me,… — 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 Family 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
If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never… — Trombone Shorty Art Copy Share Image
Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and… — 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 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
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
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 City 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… — 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 Brother 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
I was given a horn at an early age. I never really got a chance to think about doing anything else until… — 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 Brothers Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not… — 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 City Copy Share Image
