We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach… — Trombone Shorty Approach 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
I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't… — 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 Being 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 Everyday Copy Share Image
'Supafunkrock' is a musical gumbo. We throw all those musical influences into the pot and put it out there. — Trombone Shorty Gumbo Copy Share Image
My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player. — 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
As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come… — Trombone Shorty Birthday 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,… — Trombone Shorty Chance 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… — 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
There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I just don't like looking at the crowd and seeing them just staring and listening to the music. When I get them… — Trombone Shorty 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
My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence. — 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
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
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
I listen to Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, U2, and it becomes part of me, comes out in my music. Wherever it… — Trombone Shorty Day Copy Share Image
When we're ready to do the dress rehearsal, we'll rehearse in the dark. No lights. The reason why I do that is… — 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 Around the world Copy Share Image
I had a lot of older musicians looking out for me, teaching me, and showing me things when they saw how interested… — Trombone Shorty Age 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 Hip hop Copy Share Image
We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
