Lead Quote by Trombone Shorty

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

— Bill Kreutzmann

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

— Ellen DeGeneres

I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there…

— Joel Plaskett

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to…

— Allen Toussaint

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

— Trombone Shorty

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

— Trombone Shorty

Style in New York is much more accessorized and tailored and L.A. is way more flowy and day-to-evening. It is fluid and a lot…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the…

— El-P

I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen…

— Bill Kreutzmann

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and…

— Madeleine Peyroux

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style.

— Tamara de Lempicka

The younger generation of hip-hop artists believes in doing something irreverent, inventing a new style. That's all it's about.

— Kodie Shane

Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.

— Roberto Duran

Chance The Rapper is just unreal: he's changing rap and really creating this whole amazing new style.

— Shawn Mendes