"[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." - Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
source: The Daily Telegraph (October 23, 2009)
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Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
"It was a house full of rules. You couldn't walk around the house barefoot. Whenever anyone older than you came into the room, you stood up. You didn't speak until you were spoken to, you had to say, Sir or Ma'm." - Harry Connick, Jr.
source: The Daily Telegraph (October 23, 2009)
source: The Daily Telegraph (October 23, 2009)
Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
"I'm gay, it’s all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is." - Harry Connick, Jr.
source: The Daily Telegraph (October 23, 2009)
source: The Daily Telegraph (October 23, 2009)
Joe Pass Quotes
"I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family." - Joe Pass
source: Interview with Guitar Magazine (June, 1974)
source: Interview with Guitar Magazine (June, 1974)
Charles Mingus Quotes
"Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own!" - Charles Mingus
Mel Torme Quotes
"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film." - Mel Torme
Louis Prima Quotes
"My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around." - Louis Prima
Herbie Mann Quotes
"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town." - Herbie Mann
Herbie Hancock Quotes
"But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father." - Herbie Hancock
