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When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, ...
TROMBONE SHORTY I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a l...
SAM HEUGHAN![]()
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, tr...
QUINCY JONES As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And wh...
TROMBONE SHORTY There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. ...
TROMBONE SHORTY In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week...
TROMBONE SHORTY I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them...
TROMBONE SHORTY It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me.
TROMBONE SHORTY I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take th...
TROMBONE SHORTY When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda ...
TROMBONE SHORTY There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a h...
TROMBONE SHORTY I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would...
TROMBONE SHORTY It was just music all day... My neighbors were musicians, and my brother and my family and everybody...
TROMBONE SHORTY Whenever we can, we try to talk to students. If I can, I'll invite kids from a school to a sound...
TROMBONE SHORTY I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I've b...
TROMBONE SHORTY Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody tak...
TROMBONE SHORTY Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the i...
TROMBONE SHORTY I got a chance to work with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh and Juvenile and all these people as I was gro...
TROMBONE SHORTY I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's wh...
TROMBONE SHORTY You've got different people that have different views of New Orleans. When you say 'New Orle...
TROMBONE SHORTY I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were p...
TROMBONE SHORTY I listen to Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, U2, and it becomes part of me, comes out in my music. Wherev...
TROMBONE SHORTY I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day.
TROMBONE SHORTY We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just...
TROMBONE SHORTY Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument....
TROMBONE SHORTY I never really listened to any particular trombone players.
TROMBONE SHORTY A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
CHRIS BARBER When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.
RAY CONNIFF The Cougars are three-trombone underdogs.
JOHN BLANCHETTE![]()
The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. . . . It was my idea to mak...
FRANK SINATRA![]()
The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my v...
FRANK SINATRA I know the slide positions for trombone,
ROBERT FOSTER They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.
BEN JAFFE![]()
I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the...
WYNTON MARSALIS Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or...
CHRIS STAPLETON One of his passions in life was his trombone.
DICK EMBERLEY They had too many classical piano players. I didn't have their chops. I couldn't keep up with them. ...
GEORGE DUKE I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I did...
GABRIELLE APLIN![]()
My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering....
CHANNING TATUM My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I woul...
TED LIGETY![]()
I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.
DOLPH LUNDGREN![]()
Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or...
CAMRYN MANHEIM![]()
The whirligig featured a drummer, a trumpet player, a clarinetist, and a man with a trombone. It was...
PAUL FLEISCHMAN![]()
We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
PAUL PRUDHOMME![]()
My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just k...
ABBY WAMBACH I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, ...
JOHN TESH![]()
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ...
LYNN JOHNSTON![]()
My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.
BILL HADER![]()
I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons...
BIL KEANE![]()
The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didn't really teach me about money, was th...
BO SANCHEZ My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a te...
NASTASSJA KINSKI![]()
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.
HARRY MATHEWS![]()
My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have...
OLIVIA WILLIAMS I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they t...
ELLAR COLTRANE I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trum...
CHRISTIAN SCOTT![]()
My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
JERRY SEINFELD![]()
I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.
COLM MEANEY My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS![]()
I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn'...
JIM CARREY![]()
When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn'...
SHAWN JOHNSON The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the righ...
HECTOR BERLIOZ We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
DAN LEVITAN My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregn...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to pi...
BARBARA KRUGER I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.
CARRIE COON He's the trumpet player's trumpet player,
JEFF JARVIS![]()
Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realis...
RACHEL JOHNSON![]()
The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and ...
KURT VONNEGUT![]()
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
JACK KEMP![]()
A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories ...
BRITTANY SNOW My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to wr...
CHRISTINE ELISE My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner t...
BO SANCHEZ![]()
It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked ...
GABRIELA SABATINI![]()
I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn't need me anymore. I respect...
THOMAS MUSTER The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a s...
RAY MANZAREK![]()
I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground m...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Musicians were always coming and going in our house. My parents didn't play much, but they were ...
ERIK HASSLE![]()
In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my p...
SANDRA OH![]()
I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they ...
AVRIL LAVIGNE![]()
I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
O. J. SIMPSON My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had...
KATE HUDSON![]()
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - bu...
CANDICE BERGEN![]()
As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a w...
LARRY BIRD I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
WENDELL PIERCE I didn't have a record player.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggre...
YANDEL![]()
As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost st...
BIPASHA BASU![]()
My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.
JELLO BIAFRA![]()
I don't for a second regret my closeness to them because they were wonderful, golden parents who...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
T. BERRY BRAZELTON![]()
A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling th...
JHUMPA LAHIRI My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co...
JACK WAGNER![]()
My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their s...
CAMRYN MANHEIM![]()
I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they...
DOVE CAMERON The group, composed of a trombone, French horn, tuba and two trumpets, performs pieces from the clas...
JANE RILEY Alcatraz, the federal prison with a name like the blare of a trombone, is a black molar in the jawbo...
THOMAS E. GADDIS![]()
If I can't go to my parents, then my parents come to me.
MALUMA As a player, that's not your responsibility to comment and to give your opinion on another playe...
ELI MANNING![]()
Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a f...
MICHAEL SPECTER
TROMBONE SHORTY I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a l...
SAM HEUGHAN
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, tr... QUINCY JONES As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And wh...
TROMBONE SHORTY There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. ...
TROMBONE SHORTY In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week...
TROMBONE SHORTY I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them...
TROMBONE SHORTY It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me.
TROMBONE SHORTY I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take th...
TROMBONE SHORTY When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda ...
TROMBONE SHORTY There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a h...
TROMBONE SHORTY I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would...
TROMBONE SHORTY It was just music all day... My neighbors were musicians, and my brother and my family and everybody...
TROMBONE SHORTY Whenever we can, we try to talk to students. If I can, I'll invite kids from a school to a sound...
TROMBONE SHORTY I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I've b...
TROMBONE SHORTY Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody tak...
TROMBONE SHORTY Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the i...
TROMBONE SHORTY I got a chance to work with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh and Juvenile and all these people as I was gro...
TROMBONE SHORTY I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's wh...
TROMBONE SHORTY You've got different people that have different views of New Orleans. When you say 'New Orle...
TROMBONE SHORTY I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were p...
TROMBONE SHORTY I listen to Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, U2, and it becomes part of me, comes out in my music. Wherev...
TROMBONE SHORTY I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day.
TROMBONE SHORTY We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just...
TROMBONE SHORTY Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument....
TROMBONE SHORTY I never really listened to any particular trombone players.
TROMBONE SHORTY A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
CHRIS BARBER When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.
RAY CONNIFF The Cougars are three-trombone underdogs.
JOHN BLANCHETTE
The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. . . . It was my idea to mak... FRANK SINATRA
The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my v... FRANK SINATRA I know the slide positions for trombone,
ROBERT FOSTER They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.
BEN JAFFE
I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the... WYNTON MARSALIS Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or...
CHRIS STAPLETON One of his passions in life was his trombone.
DICK EMBERLEY They had too many classical piano players. I didn't have their chops. I couldn't keep up with them. ...
GEORGE DUKE I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I did...
GABRIELLE APLIN
My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering.... CHANNING TATUM My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I woul...
TED LIGETY
I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone. DOLPH LUNDGREN
Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or... CAMRYN MANHEIM
The whirligig featured a drummer, a trumpet player, a clarinetist, and a man with a trombone. It was... PAUL FLEISCHMAN
We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents. PAUL PRUDHOMME
My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just k... ABBY WAMBACH I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, ...
JOHN TESH
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ... LYNN JOHNSTON
My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy. BILL HADER
I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons... BIL KEANE
The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over. LOUIS ARMSTRONG The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didn't really teach me about money, was th...
BO SANCHEZ My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a te...
NASTASSJA KINSKI
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't. HARRY MATHEWS
My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have... OLIVIA WILLIAMS I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they t...
ELLAR COLTRANE I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trum...
CHRISTIAN SCOTT
My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law. JERRY SEINFELD
I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less. COLM MEANEY My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS
I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn'... JIM CARREY
When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn'... SHAWN JOHNSON The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the righ...
HECTOR BERLIOZ We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
DAN LEVITAN My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregn...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to pi...
BARBARA KRUGER I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.
CARRIE COON He's the trumpet player's trumpet player,
JEFF JARVIS
Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realis... RACHEL JOHNSON
The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and ... KURT VONNEGUT
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed. JACK KEMP
A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories ... BRITTANY SNOW My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to wr...
CHRISTINE ELISE My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner t...
BO SANCHEZ
It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked ... GABRIELA SABATINI
I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn't need me anymore. I respect... THOMAS MUSTER The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a s...
RAY MANZAREK
I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground m... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Musicians were always coming and going in our house. My parents didn't play much, but they were ...
ERIK HASSLE
In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my p... SANDRA OH
I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they ... AVRIL LAVIGNE
I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed. O. J. SIMPSON My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had...
KATE HUDSON
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - bu... CANDICE BERGEN
As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a w... LARRY BIRD I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
WENDELL PIERCE I didn't have a record player.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggre...
YANDEL
As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost st... BIPASHA BASU
My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination. JELLO BIAFRA
I don't for a second regret my closeness to them because they were wonderful, golden parents who... MIRIAM MARGOLYES Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
T. BERRY BRAZELTON
A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling th... JHUMPA LAHIRI My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co...
JACK WAGNER
My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their s... CAMRYN MANHEIM
I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they... DOVE CAMERON The group, composed of a trombone, French horn, tuba and two trumpets, performs pieces from the clas...
JANE RILEY Alcatraz, the federal prison with a name like the blare of a trombone, is a black molar in the jawbo...
THOMAS E. GADDIS
If I can't go to my parents, then my parents come to me. MALUMA As a player, that's not your responsibility to comment and to give your opinion on another playe...
ELI MANNING
Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a f... MICHAEL SPECTER
