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" 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. "

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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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" If I can just play, it doesn't matter where we are... Japan, Australia, or here in the neighborhood. "

" If people aren't dancing, we're not doing our job. "

" 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. "

" It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music. "

" Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it? "

" What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen. "

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

" I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills. "

" 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. "

" Whatever fame or success we have right now came strictly from us playing. As long as we focus on music and not trying to be stars, I think we'll be okay. "

" It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what I grew up doing. "

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" 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. "