Barbara Cook Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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,

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.