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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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" People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new. "
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" Whenever we can, we try to talk to students. If I can, I'll invite kids from a school to a sound check and take questions from them. I want to show them it's cool to play the trombone. Kids are influenced by what's accessible to them. It's hard for kids to be introduced to music other than what they see on TV and video. "
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" 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. "
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" I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band. "
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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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" 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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" Sometimes on my show, I just play something out of the blue, and the band picks up on it. "
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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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" I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills. "
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Me
" If I can just play, it doesn't matter where we are... Japan, Australia, or here in the neighborhood. "
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