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" People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me. "
Trombone Shorty
Seem
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" Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements. "
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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. "
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" We're not really trying to do anything besides represent where we come from, and that's New Orleans. "
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" My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player. "
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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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" 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. "
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" That always has been one of my dreams, to be able to appeal to a bunch of people. "
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" 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. "
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