Harry Connick, Jr. quotes

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#New York #Fun #Paris

Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Moving #Grace #Dignity

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Essence #New Orleans #Soul

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Character #Pages #Scripts

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Thinking #Romantic Love #People

No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Country #Couple #Artist

Safety's just danger, out of place.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Safety #Danger

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Powerful #Thinking #Good Times

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Mean #Exercise #Golf

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Christmas #Song #Kings

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Love #Inspirational #Marriage

I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Blessed #Wife #Lucky

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Philosophical #Player #Piano

I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Hobbies #Bigger

I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Reviews #Terrible

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Kids #Play #Piano

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Humanity #Habitat #Habitat For Humanity

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Swings #Blood #Voice

I'd like to move back to New Orleans.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Moving #New Orleans

I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Moving #Boys #New Orleans

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Song #Musician #Jazz

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Home #Reality #America

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Daughter #Mother #Dad

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Girl #Fashion #Mean

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Sorry #Wife #Reason

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Years #Ego #Jerk

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Feelings #Stage

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Kind #Life Is #Spontaneous

You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Situation #Uncomfortable #Feels

I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Men #Jeans #Loud

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Memories #Long #Brain

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Ideas #Skills #Albums

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Who I Am #Singing #Mind

You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I'm better, it's just that there's a unique quality to everyone.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Unique #Quality #Break

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Kids #Careers #Piano

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Years #Long #May

With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Dark #Tone #Rich

Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Fire #Light #Daddy

With imagination, I'll get there.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Imagination

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Sexy #Thinking #People

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Girl #Seductive #Albums

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Funny #Strong #Guy

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Music #Piano #Singing

I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Forgotten #Scream

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory. I will do everything within my power to make that happen and to help in any way I can to ease the suffering of my city, my people!
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Dream #New Orleans #Essence

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Daughter #Mother #Two

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Girl #Boys #Littles

They don't make you what you are, you do. You are what you choose to be.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Decision #Decision Making #You Choose

We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Home #New Orleans #Humanity

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Teacher #Kids #Idols

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Mom #Mother #Thinking

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Passion #Play #Piano

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Dad #New Orleans #Years

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Writing #Tragedy #Terrible

There are people who can't stand me, they say, 'God, he makes me sick', or, 'He's creepy', but it doesn't affect me too badly.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#People #Sick #Creepy

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Writing #Records #Orchestra

My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Mom #Dad #People

I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Dream #Opportunity #Environment

Everything I do is part of my passion.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Passion #My Passion

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Love #Men #People

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Mean #Kids #People

I'm really boring, man. Like, I'm really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it's pretty dull. But that's what I like.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Fun #Men #Thinking

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Song #Thinking #People

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Mother #Dad #Piano

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Song #Vices #Vice Versa

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#New Orleans #Cities #People

I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Stars #Nice #People

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Dance #Mean #People

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#New Orleans #Government #People

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Funny #Mean #Thinking

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Song #Actors #Singers

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Strong #Dad #Hero

I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.
-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Mistake #Thinking #Care