Quotes by Trombone Shorty

“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 inf...”

“Whenever I go jamming, people are looking to cut me. The young ones learn my stuff and come play it at me, and I have to learn other stuff. I feel a lot of pressure. But it's cool. It's a good pres...”

“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.”

“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.”