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" 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. "

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" Music brings unity. "

" When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band. "

" My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player. "

" We come from New Orleans, so everything is emotional - for, once the music takes over, and we start blowing, we go into a different zone that takes over our whole body. "

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" Whenever I go jamming, people are looking to cut me. The young ones learn my stuff and come play it at me, and I have to learn other stuff. I feel a lot of pressure. But it's cool. It's a good pressure. "

" I spent a lot of time with the Neville Brothers and Dr. John and different people. They play different styles of music, and it allowed me to learn different styles. "

" I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth. "

" Whenever we can, we try to talk to students. If I can, I'll invite kids from a school to a sound check and take questions from them. I want to show them it's cool to play the trombone. Kids are influenced by what's accessible to them. It's hard for kids to be introduced to music other than what they see on TV and video. "

" New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the years and add them to what I'm doing with the natural New Orleans sound. "

" I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music. "

" 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. "

" In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and on their breaks, they might go see the reggae band that's right next door. You might get the musicians from the reggae band to sit in with the brass musicians. Everyone is having fun. "

" Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead. "

" Music for us is a place of joy. Bringin' joy... that's what we are all about. "

" At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means. "

" As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music. "

" That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music. "

" I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I'm working on a new one. "

" To be able to do what you truly love for a living is a gift. "

" The only thing we try and do is just be a part of the gumbo that New Orleans is. "

" I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy. "

" My only time off is when I'm sleeping. "

" My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence. "

" I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played. I just thought music was music. "

" Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them. "

" Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician. "

" We really practice music and work really hard. Sometimes we'll leave at six in the morning, and we started at three the day before. "

" Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades. "

" I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day. "

" Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It's a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible. "