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

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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.

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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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• ‟ Music brings unity.

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• ‟ Music for us is a place of joy. Bringin' joy... that's what we are all about.

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• ‟ Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead.

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• ‟ Music should be pushed forward.

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

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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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• ‟ 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'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.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ We really practice music and work really hard. Sometimes we'll leave at six in the morning, and we started at three the day before.

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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.

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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 was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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