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

" 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. "

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

" I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played. I just thought music was music. "

" 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. "

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

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

" As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental 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. "

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

" I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician. "

" Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it? "

" I grew up listening to the Neville Brothers and the Rebirth Brass Band. "

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

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" I'm very proud of my band and my musicians. "

" I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would listen to Juvenile or Lil Wayne. It's just that I'm a big fan of music. I'm a student of music. And I just want to learn and keep enhancing my education about the music. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In New Orleans, we celebrate everything. It's probably the only place you'll see people dancing in a funeral home. "

" I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band. "

" One thing I've learned in life is that natural talent only takes you so far, and I've always wanted to grow. "

" 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. "

" In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and on their breaks, they might go see the reggae band that's right next door. You might get the musicians from the reggae band to sit in with the brass musicians. Everyone is having fun. "

" We didn't know music had all these names. We made up SupaFunkRock on a plane when a flight attendant asked us what we play. "

" 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. "