Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes

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.

They don't make you what you are, you do. You are what you choose to be.

Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

With imagination, I'll get there.

I think women like to laugh, to have doors opened for them, to have a man walk behind them when they're going up steps, and in front of them when they're going down steps. As chauvinistic as that may sound, it's in my bones.

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

You have to do things that do good for you and when there's an uncharted course, you have to figure out how to get through it.

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.

'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.

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.

Safety's just danger, out of place.

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.

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.

Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy.

If you think of the public lives of people who've been unlucky, it seems showbiz is some tumultuous crazy world but some are fortunate and some unfortunate. All I can do is keep striving to be better.

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

I never dated much. I dated one girl before my wife, and that was it.

[Being judge] is about being honest and giving everybody a fair shot and telling them what you think. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it isn't. It's more important to be honest than say things to make people feel better. I don't think you have to be rude, but I think you have to be honest. But I think it's really important to be specific: Here's what you did that was great and why. And here's what you did that wasn't great and why.

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

Everything I do is part of my passion.

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

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.

To be a good kisser start slow, definitely ramp into it and remember somebody's on the other side of your mouth!

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