#no

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#chops #everything #faster #get #going

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.

#bigger #everything #having #hobby #i

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.

#because #brothers #did #enormous #guys

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.

#because #before #go #had #home

I had tons of friends, played ball with my friends on the street, and did the normal things. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#did #friends #had #i #normal

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. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#before #better #city #could #future

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? ↗

— Eliza Cook

#cynic #down #fairy #frown #knock

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. ↗

— Richard Wright

#beaten #books #dream #experience #i

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

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#feel #going #i #i do #i feel

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#betray #children #credit #foreigner #him