Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• '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.

  Christmas, Song, Kings

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

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Song, Musician, Jazz

• 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 and bring about my interpretation of them.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Song, Actors, Singers

• 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.

  Song, Thinking, People

• If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Song, Vices, Vice Versa

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