Harry Connick Jr. Quotes

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with my band, and with everything else I feel kind of uncomfortable. I don't think I'm socially awkward. I just prefer being behind a piano.

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and off for a long time, so when it came to writing comedy material, it was the thing that came easiest to me, the most natural way of writing.

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing.

You know, I'd forget words and start just singing noises.