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" If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never forgot that jazz is dance music and jazz is fun. I'm more influenced by that style of jazz than anything else. "

Trombone Shorty

Music

Style

Fun

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" Music for us is a place of joy. Bringin' joy... that's what we are all about. "

" Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead. "

" That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music. "

" I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills. "

" 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. "

Trombone Shorty

Start

Music

" Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician. "

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

" The music always takes us to different places. We'll just continue to play and see what doors open from there. "

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

" People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me. "

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Seem

Sound

" I just want to spearhead and lead a new style of New Orleans music. "

" The only thing we try and do is just be a part of the gumbo that New Orleans is. "

" My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player. "

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

" It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me. "

" 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. "

" I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's what I think about. Like, I listen to guitar players every day: Warren Haynes, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, different people. And I'm always trying to find out a way how I can get my trombone to sound like that. "

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

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Grow

Take

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

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

" Life would be pretty boring if I didn't explore. It's about letting my ears take me on an adventure to soak in everything I can. "

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

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

" You've got different people that have different views of New Orleans. When you say 'New Orleans,' you have people who just think of the Neville Brothers. You've got people that think of Louis Armstrong. You say 'New Orleans,' and you've got people that think of Lil' Wayne. "

" 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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Always

Green

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

" Sometimes it's very hard for other New Orleans musicians to break out. It starts with the musician. They have to be willing to take a risk. Playing in the city, you can get comfortable. You think things are going well, but you're always in the city. "

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

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

" Whenever we can, we try to talk to students. If I can, I'll invite kids from a school to a sound check and take questions from them. I want to show them it's cool to play the trombone. Kids are influenced by what's accessible to them. It's hard for kids to be introduced to music other than what they see on TV and video. "