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" I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Music brings unity. "

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" I need New Orleans. And New Orleans needs me. "

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

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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music. "

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" The only thing we try and do is just be a part of the gumbo that New Orleans is. "

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

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

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" 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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" People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me. "

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" We come from New Orleans, so everything is emotional - for, once the music takes over, and we start blowing, we go into a different zone that takes over our whole body. "

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

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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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" 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 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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" 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. "

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" I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they should be. "

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" As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day. "

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" Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It's a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible. "

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