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

" I never really listened to any particular trombone players. "

" What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen. "

" We're not really trying to do anything besides represent where we come from, and that's New Orleans. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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" I listen to Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, U2, and it becomes part of me, comes out in my music. Wherever it goes, there will always be the fabric of New Orleans in it. "

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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. "

" We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach them where it all comes from. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player. "

" 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. "

" I love to play. That's always been my passion. "

" I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of bands like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band around. "

" 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. "

" New Orleans made me who I am. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Australia is one of my favorite places to play - it's a crazy experience. "

" I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old. "

" 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. "

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

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

" To be able to do what you truly love for a living is a gift. "

" I've been playing music since I was four, so it's part of my life. It's all I know. It's just a part of my everyday living. "

" 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. "