Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes

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.

Harry Connick, Jr.

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• I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.

  

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• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

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• I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

  

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• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

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• I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.

  

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• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

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• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  

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• I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

  

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• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

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• Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

  

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• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

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• None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

  

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• Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.

  

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• Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

  

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• Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

  

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• The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

  

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• Those sound like the three best answers I've ever heard on this show even though it's the first ever of this show!

  

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• 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.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Care
  • Mistake
  • Chance