Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes

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Harry Connick, Jr.

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 11, 1967

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.

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.

I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.

Harry Connick, Jr.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I'm having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

Harry Connick, Jr.

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.

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.

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.

Harry Connick, Jr.

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.

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

Harry Connick, Jr.

Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.

Harry Connick, Jr.

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

Harry Connick, Jr.

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.