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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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" 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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" I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I'm working on a new one. "

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

" Everything is a learning experience for me. "

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Learning

Experience

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

" Music brings unity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Rock guitar is one of my favourite sounds. "

" 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. "

" 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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Dream

Best

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

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Needs

Need

" 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. "

" You always want to learn, you know. "

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

" I have to continue to grow and take it to another level so the next generation has something to follow. "

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Grow

Take

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

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

" My only time off is when I'm sleeping. "

" 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. "

" I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen. "

" 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. "