Barbara Cook Quotes & Sayings

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing. — Barbara Cook

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing. — Barbara Cook

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction, — Barbara Cook

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be. — Barbara Cook

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section. — Barbara Cook

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap. — Barbara Cook

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff ... And it does take courage. — Barbara Cook

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7. — Barbara Cook

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence. — Barbara Cook

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever. — Barbara Cook

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies. — Barbara Cook

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive. — Barbara Cook