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Harry Connick, Jr.

American Musician

Born: Sep 11, 1967

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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. Harry Connick, Jr.

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My Dad is my hero. Harry Connick, Jr.

Hero Dad

'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.

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

Mother Knew Until She Well Died

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

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

Everywhere Terrible Go Reviews Get

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road. Harry Connick, Jr.

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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.

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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'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.

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.

Music Girl Seductive Most Ever Album

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

Own Everybody Record Write Stuff Gets Orchestra

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.

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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.

Work Music Work Hard Practice Saving Hard Lives Here

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.

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I don't ever feel the need to escape. Harry Connick, Jr.

Feel Escape Ever Need

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

You Situation I Feel Uncomfortable Feel Know Comfortable Smoothly Going Things

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.

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