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" 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. "
Trombone Shorty
Stars
Now
Think
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" You've got different people that have different views of New Orleans. When you say 'New Orleans,' you have people who just think of the Neville Brothers. You've got people that think of Louis Armstrong. You say 'New Orleans,' and you've got people that think of Lil' Wayne. "
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" I need New Orleans. And New Orleans needs me. "
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" I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's what I think about. Like, I listen to guitar players every day: Warren Haynes, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, different people. And I'm always trying to find out a way how I can get my trombone to sound like that. "
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" 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. "
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" To be able to do what you truly love for a living is a gift. "
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" 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. "
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" People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new. "
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" I love to play. That's always been my passion. "
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" Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk. "
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Done
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" I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills. "
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" My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player. "
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Need
" New Orleans made me who I am. "
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I Am
Made
Me
" I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth. "
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Pretty
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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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" The music always takes us to different places. We'll just continue to play and see what doors open from there. "
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Music
" 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. "
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Long
" I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know. "
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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 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. "
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People
Studying
" Everything is a learning experience for me. "
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Learning
Experience
" In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don't like people sitting down. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" One thing I've learned in life is that natural talent only takes you so far, and I've always wanted to grow. "
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