Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Song, Actors, Singers

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• 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.

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  Song, Vices, Vice Versa

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Records

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• I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

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  Sorry, Wife, Reason

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2007.

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• 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.

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  People, Sick, Creepy

  "Q&A". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Strong, Dad, Hero

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

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  Music, Piano, Singing

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

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  Girl, Seductive, Albums

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• All I really want - when I pray , I don't really ask for anything. All I want to do is God's will and make the best decisions I can. I don't go out and preach.

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  Decision, Want, Praying

  Source: www.patheos.com

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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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  Blessed, Wife, Lucky

  "Harry Connick Jr. On Dolphins, New Orleans And His Marriage Secret". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2011.

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• I'm looking at [my daughter] right now. To think that I am her dad is the greatest honor in the world. She's an amazing kid. We have a great relationship and she is one of my closest friends. I seek her advice. I like to know what she thinks about things, and she's helped me through some really tough times. I just look forward to years of developing that relationship.

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  Daughter, Dad, Kids

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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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  Uncomfortable Situations, Feels, Knows

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com. March 3, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Fun, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com. March 3, 2011.

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• My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.

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  Kind, Life Is, Spontaneous

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• [My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

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  Family, Mother, Strong

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• 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.

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  Funny, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com. March 3, 2011.

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

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  Character, Pages, Scripts

  "Harry Connick Jr. Talks DOLPHIN TALE 2, Balancing His Music and Movie Career, AMERICAN IDOL and His New Album". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. September 14, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Sexy, Thinking, People

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• 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!

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  Girl, Boys, Littles

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• We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

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  People, Our Society, Messages

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• 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!

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  Dream, New Orleans, Essence

  "Fats Domino Found in New Orleans" by Gina Serpe, www.eonline.com. September 1, 2005.

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• I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

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  Family, Mother, Kids

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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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  Men, Jeans, Loud

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• You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.

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  New Orleans, Play, Style

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• 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.

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  Mom, Dad, People

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