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" 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. "

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" We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach them where it all comes from. "

Trombone Shorty

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Way

" I love to play. That's always been my passion. "

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

" 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. "

" We didn't know music had all these names. We made up SupaFunkRock on a plane when a flight attendant asked us what we play. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played in band there, but it's a part of the city. They play for the tourists and represent a whole different side of the culture of our city. "

" Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk. "

" 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. "

" I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it. "

Trombone Shorty

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Music

" I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy. "

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

" You always want to learn, you know. "

" 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

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Start

" 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. "

" No matter what setting I play in, I will always be New Orleans. It's one of the only cities where you can hang out with the Marsalis family, the Neville brothers, whoever it might be, and we all play together. "