Harry Connick
Harry Connick
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hard to sit in silence, to watch one's youth wash away.
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It is hard to sit in silence, to watch one's youth wash away. New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory.
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It is hard to sit in silence, to watch one's youth wash away, ... Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city... to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.
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I haven't slept in days. Although I now finally know that my immediate family in New Orleans is safe, I have not heard from many, many friends and other family members, ... It is hard to sit in silence, to watch one's youth wash away. New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory.
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I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.
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Flooded streets, shattered lives, broken hearts, yet through it all, the music never dies, ... This CD helps us heal a place that has given so much music to the world.
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I would hate to be like little Harry Connick, being used for propaganda. I like Harry, but that's not for me.... If they got Harry in, why couldn't they bring back some people who lived in the neighborhood?
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Oh man, it's made my life easier....Imagine if a Duke Ellington or a Stravinsky had had a system like that.
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It's so strange that this is a home game for us,
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While local, state and federal officials were bogged down in bureaucracy, Connick flew to his native city and personally delivered water and food to survivors.
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I think what Mr. West said provided one extreme that we should examine, ... I think a lot of things were said that needed to be said and we raised the money. That's why we were here simply to raise money and we did.
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It can't be any worse than spending three hours in the Superdome watching some of those Saints games we've had in the past. We're tough people. We're diehard.
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There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.
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Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.