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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. "

Trombone Shorty

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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. "

" When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda like the Roots would do. I will put New Orleans music on top of that with some other rhythms. "

" New Orleans made me who I am. "

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I Am

Made

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

" Everything is a learning experience for me. "

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Learning

Experience

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

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

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

" Music brings unity. "

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

" 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. "

" It doesn't matter where we are. We can be marching down the streets of New Orleans, or we can be onstage in front of 15,000 people. As long as I know that I'm about to put my horn to my mouth and play some notes, that's what I most look forward to. "

" 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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Bunch

Brother

" 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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Doing

Start

" 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. "

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

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Seem

Sound

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

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

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

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Needs

Need

" At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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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Need

Music

" No matter what setting I play in, I will always be New Orleans. It's one of the only cities where you can hang out with the Marsalis family, the Neville brothers, whoever it might be, and we all play together. "

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

" 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

" 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. "