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Music brings unity.
New Orleans made me who I am.
My only time off is when I'm sleeping.
Rock guitar is one of my favourite sounds.
Everything is a learning experience for me.
I need New Orleans. And New Orleans needs me.
If people aren't dancing, we're not doing our job.
I was nurtured to play music pretty much from birth.
When I play the trumpet, I'm in a different character.
I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band.
That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music.
All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.
I never really listened to any particular trombone players.
People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me.
I just want to spearhead and lead a new style of New Orleans music.
I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music.
I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old.
I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know.
At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means.
I grew up listening to the Neville Brothers and the Rebirth Brass Band.
I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy.
Australia is one of my favorite places to play - it's a crazy experience.
Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.
Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?
Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them.
My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence.
I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills.
I could just play my horn in my room for 20 minutes a day, and I will be happy.
The only thing we try and do is just be a part of the gumbo that New Orleans is.
I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day.
That always has been one of my dreams, to be able to appeal to a bunch of people.
I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.
What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.
My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player.
In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don't like people sitting down.
Sometimes on my show, I just play something out of the blue, and the band picks up on it.
It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me.
As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.
New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.
If I can just play, it doesn't matter where we are... Japan, Australia, or here in the neighborhood.
We're not really trying to do anything besides represent where we come from, and that's New Orleans.
Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.
'Supafunkrock' is a musical gumbo. We throw all those musical influences into the pot and put it out there.
One thing I've learned in life is that natural talent only takes you so far, and I've always wanted to grow.
The music always takes us to different places. We'll just continue to play and see what doors open from there.
I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band.
In New Orleans, we celebrate everything. It's probably the only place you'll see people dancing in a funeral home.
People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.
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.
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.