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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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Right
Band
Dirty
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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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Records
Listen
Proud
" 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. "
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Sound
New
New Orleans
" 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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Music
Growing Up
" It doesn't matter where we are. We can be marching down the streets of New Orleans, or we can be onstage in front of 15,000 people. As long as I know that I'm about to put my horn to my mouth and play some notes, that's what I most look forward to. "
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People
Look
Long
" No matter what setting I play in, I will always be New Orleans. It's one of the only cities where you can hang out with the Marsalis family, the Neville brothers, whoever it might be, and we all play together. "
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Together
New
Family
" To be able to do what you truly love for a living is a gift. "
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You
Love
Living
" Music should be pushed forward. "
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Pushed
Music
Forward
" I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's what I think about. Like, I listen to guitar players every day: Warren Haynes, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, different people. And I'm always trying to find out a way how I can get my trombone to sound like that. "
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Think
Day
Find
" At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means. "
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Whatever
New
End Of The Day
" Australia is one of my favorite places to play - it's a crazy experience. "
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Crazy
Australia
Play
" 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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Music
Style
Fun
" I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old. "
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Old
Word
Years
" 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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You
Week
People
" People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me. "
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Seem
Like
Sound
" 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. "
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Cool
Play
Questions
" All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz. "
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New
Jazz
New Orleans
" Music for us is a place of joy. Bringin' joy... that's what we are all about. "
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About
Joy
Music
" It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music. "
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Important
History
Music
" 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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Music
Different
Guitar
" I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day. "
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Edge
Always
Show
" I was given a horn at an early age. I never really got a chance to think about doing anything else until I was about 18, when I realized I could do something else if I wanted to. In my teens, I was rolling in it. "
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Never
Think
Doing
" Music in New Orleans has always been the heartbeat that drives the city. It was that even before Katrina, and that's what we had to rely on after the storm. "
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Music
Storm
Always
" When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda like the Roots would do. I will put New Orleans music on top of that with some other rhythms. "
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Roots
Song
Thinking
" The only thing we try and do is just be a part of the gumbo that New Orleans is. "
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New
New Orleans
Only
" 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. "
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Day
Practice
Morning
" I've been playing music since I was four, so it's part of my life. It's all I know. It's just a part of my everyday living. "
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My Life
Living
Four
" There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played in band there, but it's a part of the city. They play for the tourists and represent a whole different side of the culture of our city. "
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City
Pride
Culture
" 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. "
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Time
People
Doing
" 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. "
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Looking
Good
Cool
" I need New Orleans. And New Orleans needs me. "
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Needs
Need
Me