Trombone Shorty Quotes

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.

No one can pigeon-hole me because I play everything, and I did that on purpose.

I try to cross as many genres as possible with the same attitude. I want every song to be very clear.

People are surprised when they realise that I have sung 'Tinku Jiya' as they felt it was not my genre. As a musician, till the time I don't try something, I don't refuse it. I like challenging jobs.

My musical output has been consistently acoustic, but my taste has not. I love everything. As long as it's good, I'm in.

I love to play guitar. I've never really been the type of guitar player that goes, 'I'll only play this style of music or that thing.'

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.

I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.

I always loved bands who would try to change their sound radically album to album, experiment in one album and revert back in another.

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

I just don't feel limited by genre.

I don't come from a film background, so I am free to work in any script that interests me.