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" I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know. "
Trombone Shorty
New Orleans
Think
You
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" 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. "
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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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" I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills. "
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" I could just play my horn in my room for 20 minutes a day, and I will be happy. "
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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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" It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me. "
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You
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" That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music. "
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Way
" People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me. "
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Sound
" I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth. "
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" 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
" Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk. "
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Music
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" We're not really trying to do anything besides represent where we come from, and that's New Orleans. "
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Anything
Trying
New Orleans
" If I can just play, it doesn't matter where we are... Japan, Australia, or here in the neighborhood. "
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I Can
Australia
" Sometimes it's very hard for other New Orleans musicians to break out. It starts with the musician. They have to be willing to take a risk. Playing in the city, you can get comfortable. You think things are going well, but you're always in the city. "
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Musicians
City
" I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old. "
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Word
Years
" I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod. "
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" No matter what kinds of problems we might be going through, or what kinds of problems the world might be going through, music is the place where we can all get along. We can all jam. "
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Music
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" 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. "
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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
" 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
" 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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" We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on. "
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" When I play the trumpet, I'm in a different character. "
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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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" My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence. "
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" I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music. "
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" You always want to learn, you know. "
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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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" We didn't know music had all these names. We made up SupaFunkRock on a plane when a flight attendant asked us what we play. "
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" I'm very proud of my band and my musicians. "
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