Harry Connick Jr. Quotes

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet.

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I like live musicians and personally orchestrate about 80 to 90% of all my scores.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

I consider myself a composer.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.

Music isn't only a profession.