107 Quotes by Trombone Shorty

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

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

We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.

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

If people aren't dancing, we're not doing our job.

In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don't like people sitting down.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

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.