Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...”
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“As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“'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.”
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“Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.”
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“I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.”
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“I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.”
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“I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.”
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“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.”
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“I'd like to move back to New Orleans.”
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“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.”
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“It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.”
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“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.”
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“I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.”
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“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.”
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“I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.”
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“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.”
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“I just liked the feeling of being on stage.”
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“My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.”
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“You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.”
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“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.”
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