Top 60 Harry Connick Jr. Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Let’s kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy.”

— Harry Connick Jr.

2. “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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3. “Everything I do is part of my passion.”

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4. “I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.”

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5. “I’m gay, it’s all a big scam. My kids don’t even know who their mother is.”

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6. “I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don’t see an end in sight.”

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7. “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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8. “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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9. “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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10. “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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11. “In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.”

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12. “New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...”

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13. “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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14. “My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.”

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15. “Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.”

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16. “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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17. “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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18. “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.”

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19. “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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20. “With imagination, I’ll get there.”

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21. “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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22. “They don’t make you what you are, you do. You are what you choose to be.”

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23. “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.”

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24. “I just liked the feeling of being on stage.”

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25. “With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!”

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26. “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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27. “I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I’ve been very fortunate – I understand that that doesn’t happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “You won’t talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It’s just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I’m better, it’s just that there’s a unique quality to everyone.”

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31. “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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32. “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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33. “I’m able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.”

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34. “You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “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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38. “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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39. “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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40. “I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.”

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41. “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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42. “I guess play piano, you know, because that’s the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “Safety’s just danger, out of place.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I’ve done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there’s a lot of work that goes into it.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “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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49. “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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50. “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.”

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