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" I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing. "

Trombone Shorty

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Trombone Shorty

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" I just don't like looking at the crowd and seeing them just staring and listening to the music. When I get them involved, whatever type of music I'm playing, they leave there feeling better. "

" I was given a horn at an early age. I never really got a chance to think about doing anything else until I was about 18, when I realized I could do something else if I wanted to. In my teens, I was rolling in it. "

" One thing I've learned in life is that natural talent only takes you so far, and I've always wanted to grow. "

" When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band. "

" I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth. "

" Music should be pushed forward. "

" I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I'm working on a new one. "

" I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I've been studying some tape of James Brown and different people. "

" Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements. "

" I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band. "

Trombone Shorty

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" When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what I grew up doing. "

Trombone Shorty

Doing

Start

" No matter what kinds of problems we might be going through, or what kinds of problems the world might be going through, music is the place where we can all get along. We can all jam. "

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" Rock guitar is one of my favourite sounds. "

" I listen to Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, U2, and it becomes part of me, comes out in my music. Wherever it goes, there will always be the fabric of New Orleans in it. "

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Green

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

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

" I have to continue to grow and take it to another level so the next generation has something to follow. "

Trombone Shorty

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Take

" Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it? "