Trombone Shorty Quotes

Music needs to move forward.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

I'm going to keep evolving and evolving and showing people that progression is key when it comes to music.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

I feel like when you listen to music, it's almost like the same thing over and over, but of course as time goes on, rappers evolve, lyrical play evolves.

You have to grow with the music.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

Music is constantly developing and changing.

Music moves forward so quickly; music is an accumulation of knowledge, and musicians keep getting better and better.

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.