3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they’re there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. 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.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. 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.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he’s genuinely interested in what she’s going through.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. ‘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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. 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.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. Marriage has made me a lot happier and I’m deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. 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.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. 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.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. 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.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. I only tour in short bursts, I’m only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. I practice and work hard at my music, but I’m not saving lives here.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. 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.
