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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. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Society
Point
People
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" Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Hobby
Everything
Play
" 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.
Wife
Blessed
Love
" Safety's just danger, out of place. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Safety
Place
Out
" If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Man
Need
Love
" 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. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Listen
Opportunity
Today
" 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.
Truck
Early
Back
" 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. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Happy
I Am
Life
" There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Home
Losing
Mind
" 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.
Realize
New
Think
" Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Like
Fair
Everything
" 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. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Food
Best
Fun
" Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
God
Day
Love
" Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Start
Song
You
" 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.
Think
Time
Powerful
" Everything I do is part of my passion. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Part
Everything
Passion
" My Dad is my hero. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Dad
Father's Day
Hero
" 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.
Work
Think
Road
" 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.
Me
Words
Jazz
" '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.
Alone
Performance
Me
" 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. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Golf
Work
Place
" The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Unrelated
Two
Stuff
" I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Blood
Swing
Voice
" 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. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Time
You
Work
" I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons. "
Harry Connick, Jr.
Five
Wife
Day