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" I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would listen to Juvenile or Lil Wayne. It's just that I'm a big fan of music. I'm a student of music. And I just want to learn and keep enhancing my education about the music. "

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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. "

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

" Music for us is a place of joy. Bringin' joy... that's what we are all about. "

" 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. "

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

" Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don't like people sitting down. "

" Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Life would be pretty boring if I didn't explore. It's about letting my ears take me on an adventure to soak in everything I can. "

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

" You always want to learn, you know. "