Trombone Shorty Quotes

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.

When we did 'Eliminator,' at the time, it was experimental for us. It obviously turned out real successful, but at the time, we caught crap about it from some of our old fans. They thought we were deserting our roots or our old style or whatever.

It's not precisely that I'm not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... much... to go on to the next level.

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

What I really like doing is taking risks, musically.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.

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

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

What happened with reggaeton is that many artists kept recycling the same sound. But there are a lot of reggaeton artists that are still in their prime - like Daddy Yankee - because they've chosen to continue growing, to offer people more than just reggaeton. That's where I learned to always be able to try something new and not be afraid.

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

I always think that, for me, being someone who comes out of electric guitar experimentation, the idea of playing acoustic guitar is, in itself, kind of a radical move.

Throughout my career, I have always played it safe with the kind of roles I've taken up.

Pushing the envelope, musically speaking, is what needs to be done to rise to the top.

I've never been one to just play safe music and think that's all there is to it.

I'm always going to be experimenting musically, trying new things.

I became a singer and a songwriter by learning on the spot, so think I always need to be slightly out of my comfort zone when I do something. I've never stopped being experimental because that's how I started.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

I want to get better and take more risks. I need to sing with other people. I need to access parts of me that aren't being accessed in the Cocteau Twins.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.