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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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" 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. "

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" I just don't like looking at the crowd and seeing them just staring and listening to the music. When I get them involved, whatever type of music I'm playing, they leave there feeling better. "

" Everything is a learning experience for me. "

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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. "

" I'm very proud of 'Backatown,' and usually I don't like to listen to my records. "

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

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

" There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it. "

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" In New Orleans, we celebrate everything. It's probably the only place you'll see people dancing in a funeral home. "

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

" New Orleans made me who I am. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "