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" Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades. "
Musicians
Started
Streets
" All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz. "
New
Jazz
New Orleans
" As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day. "
School
Walking
Birthday
" As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music. "
Listening
Bored
Even
" At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means. "
Whatever
New
End Of The Day
" Australia is one of my favorite places to play - it's a crazy experience. "
Crazy
Australia
Play
" Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician. "
Jazz
Funk
Things Happen
" Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk. "
Music
Done
Risk
" Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it? "
Who
People
Hear
" Everything is a learning experience for me. "
Me
Learning
Experience
" Everywhere I go around the world, we have fans of New Orleans. Sometimes we go places, and people don't really know who we are, but they know New Orleans, and once we say we are from New Orleans, we have a lot of supporters. "
New
Know
Say
" From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest presents New Orleans in one place. "
Food
Street
Through
" Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them. "
Young
Stay
Off
" I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day. "
Edge
Always
Show
" I could just play my horn in my room for 20 minutes a day, and I will be happy. "
Be Happy
Happy
Will
" I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing. "
Time
People
Doing
" I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old. "
Old
Word
Years
" I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music. "
New
America
Know
" If I can just play, it doesn't matter where we are... Japan, Australia, or here in the neighborhood. "
Play
I Can
Australia
" If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never forgot that jazz is dance music and jazz is fun. I'm more influenced by that style of jazz than anything else. "
Music
Style
Fun
" If people aren't dancing, we're not doing our job. "
Job
Doing
Dancing
" I got a chance to work with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh and Juvenile and all these people as I was growing up, and so that really influenced everything I do. "
Chance
Work
Fresh
" I grew up listening to the Neville Brothers and the Rebirth Brass Band. "
Up
Band
Brothers
" I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of bands like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band around. "
Right
Band
Dirty
" I had a lot of older musicians looking out for me, teaching me, and showing me things when they saw how interested I was in music from a young age. They would take me to the side and just play some things in my ear, and I would try to play it back to them. "
Looking
Music
Musicians
" I have to continue to grow and take it to another level so the next generation has something to follow. "
Grow
Follow
Take
" I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills. "
Musicians
Older
Proud
" I just don't like looking at the crowd and seeing them just staring and listening to the music. When I get them involved, whatever type of music I'm playing, they leave there feeling better. "
Leave
Better
Music
" I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy. "
Day
Practice
Music
" I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band. "
Growing
Wanted
Keep
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