Brass Band Quotes

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

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

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.

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.

I grew up on a council estate in Luton, and as a child, I was very much into the brass-band tradition. I was basically a Salvation Army boy. My English granddad bought me a cornet when I was five years old.

I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band.

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

New Orleans is gumbo. You get so man types of things... jazz, folk, Zydeco.

As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.

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

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.

It's very common in Iceland, this music-making and artistic expression by non-professionals. The brass band tradition is not as big, but there are choirs everywhere. So that's something that is familiar to me.

I didn't mean for it to cause such a furor, but I was the first guy to ever do the national anthem with a guitar. Everyone else had the big brass band. Nowadays it's tracks that they sing to, but in my day, we had no tracks. And I was the only orchestra that I knew that was the best orchestra and that was me and my guitar.

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.

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

The trumpet is forceful.

I always have a little bit of Brazil and New Orleans in my band.

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

Flow Tribe is a great bunch of New Orleans guys who have that funkiness to them.

There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick, and the snare that drives everything for me. I think it's really what's separated my sound from a lot of the R&B and pop music out there.

As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day.

I had three older sisters whose record collections I borrowed, so I was listening to The Velvet Underground as well as Bach and brass band music.

Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.

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