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" I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I've been studying some tape of James Brown and different people. "

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" New Orleans made me who I am. "

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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've had a strong will power to become one of the best. And I'm not gonna let nothing stop me from going to my dream. "

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" New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life. "

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

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

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

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" I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old. "

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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 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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" We're not really trying to do anything besides represent where we come from, and that's New Orleans. "

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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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" 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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" I could just play my horn in my room for 20 minutes a day, and I will be happy. "

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

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

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" I never really listened to any particular trombone players. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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 should be pushed forward. "

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