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" 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. "

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" All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz. "

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" 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. "

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" I love to play. That's always been my passion. "

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" It was just music all day... My neighbors were musicians, and my brother and my family and everybody... It was just a musical neighborhood. I think the neighborhood was such a good family type of vibe for me that I didn't even realize some of the people weren't my real family till later on in life. "

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" Everything is a learning experience for me. "

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" 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. "

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" People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me. "

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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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" Sometimes on my show, I just play something out of the blue, and the band picks up on it. "

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

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" I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band. "

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" 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. "

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" Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements. "

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" You always want to learn, you know. "

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" I grew up listening to the Neville Brothers and the Rebirth Brass Band. "

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" 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. "

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" We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach them where it all comes from. "

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" 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. "

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" I listen to Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, U2, and it becomes part of me, comes out in my music. Wherever it goes, there will always be the fabric of New Orleans in it. "

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" You've got different people that have different views of New Orleans. When you say 'New Orleans,' you have people who just think of the Neville Brothers. You've got people that think of Louis Armstrong. You say 'New Orleans,' and you've got people that think of Lil' Wayne. "

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" That always has been one of my dreams, to be able to appeal to a bunch of people. "

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" Rock guitar is one of my favourite sounds. "

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" I'm very proud of 'Backatown,' and usually I don't like to listen to my records. "

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" I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out of it and put in a guitar or keyboard, it would be considered funk-rock music. "

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" I have to continue to grow and take it to another level so the next generation has something to follow. "

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" 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. "

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" I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they should be. "

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

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" The music always takes us to different places. We'll just continue to play and see what doors open from there. "

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