Trombone Shorty Quotes

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

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

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

I love stretching myself musically.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

Music should be pushed forward.

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.

I think it's really important to show new styles of song and music. I think that's what people want to see and hear from me.

I just wanna make more music, legit music as opposed to keeping the same constant thing. I wanna show growth in the music, pretty much.

I have a soft spot for 'Wind of Change' because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie - very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.

Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.

Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

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

I started out in rock, but I didn't want to stay there, and haven't.

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

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?

Compared to other bands that have gone off the deep end with their sound, you know, I'm very confident. I did not go off the deep end; it just improved.