107 Quotes by Trombone Shorty

We're not really trying to do anything besides represent where we come from, and that's New Orleans.

As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day.

That always has been one of my dreams, to be able to appeal to a bunch of people.

Everywhere I go around the world, we have fans of New Orleans. Sometimes we go places, and people don't really know who we are, but they know New Orleans, and once we say we are from New Orleans, we have a lot of supporters.

It doesn't matter where we are. We can be marching down the streets of New Orleans, or we can be onstage in front of 15,000 people. As long as I know that I'm about to put my horn to my mouth and play some notes, that's what I most look forward to.

Music should be pushed forward.

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

It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music.

I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day.