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" 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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" I love to play. That's always been my passion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music. "

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

" We don't want to be hot; we want to last - because eventually hot gets cooled down. "

" I just want to spearhead and lead a new style of New Orleans music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When we're ready to do the dress rehearsal, we'll rehearse in the dark. No lights. The reason why I do that is because I don't want the band to rely on me for anything. 'Cause anything can happen - I might stop singing or unplug the mic, just so everybody knows: Keep going, no matter what. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new. "

" I'm very proud of my band and my musicians. "

" You always want to learn, you know. "

" 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. "

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

" It was just music all day... My neighbors were musicians, and my brother and my family and everybody... It was just a musical neighborhood. I think the neighborhood was such a good family type of vibe for me that I didn't even realize some of the people weren't my real family till later on in life. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When I play the trumpet, I'm in a different character. "

" When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band. "

" To be able to do what you truly love for a living is a gift. "

" Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician. "

" 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. "

" That always has been one of my dreams, to be able to appeal to a bunch of people. "