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" 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. "

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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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" It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me. "

" 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. "

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

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" New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life. "

" In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don't like people sitting down. "

" I got a chance to work with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh and Juvenile and all these people as I was growing up, and so that really influenced everything I do. "

" I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know. "

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

" Music brings unity. "

" 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. "

" Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements. "

" 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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" All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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. "