Trombone Shorty Quotes

Trombone Shorty

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 2, 1986

I could just play my horn in my room for 20 minutes a day, and I will be happy.

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I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know.

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You always want to learn, you know.

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From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest presents New Orleans in one place.

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

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What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

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

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I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old.

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We come from New Orleans, so everything is emotional - for, once the music takes over, and we start blowing, we go into a different zone that takes over our whole body.

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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 of it and put in a guitar or keyboard, it would be considered funk-rock music.

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We don't want to be hot; we want to last - because eventually hot gets cooled down.

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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 day before.

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Whatever fame or success we have right now came strictly from us playing. As long as we focus on music and not trying to be stars, I think we'll be okay.

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I got a chance to work with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh and Juvenile and all these people as I was growing up, and so that really influenced everything I do.

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When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda like the Roots would do. I will put New Orleans music on top of that with some other rhythms.

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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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I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth.

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To be able to do what you truly love for a living is a gift.

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

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Australia is one of my favorite places to play - it's a crazy experience.

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