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.… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of [Frank] Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
Many people in and out of showbiz live their lives in different ways. I try to be the best I can be. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
[When asked how he's keeping his 12-year marriage to wife Jill fresh] Hookers, drugs. We're playing the field right now. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
![“I'm a big fan of [Frank] Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career after him, though, because we do different things. He was a great singer and a great actor ... It never crossed my mind to emulate his career, because we have different interests.” quote by Harry Connick, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cb9/harry-connick-jr-3461_actors_i-m-a-big-fan-of-frank-sinatra-he-was-th_12425.jpg)
![“[When asked how he's keeping his 12-year marriage to wife Jill fresh] Hookers, drugs. We're playing the field right now.” quote by Harry Connick, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f4/harry-connick-jr-3461_drug_when-asked-how-he-s-keeping-his-12-year_108559.jpg)
![“[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.” quote by Harry Connick, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/101/harry-connick-jr-3461_brilliant_my-mother-is-a-half-chinese-half-jamaica_191105.jpg)
