Barbara Cook Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Being Yourself #Essence #Competition

“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

#Jobs #Addiction

“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

#Military #Afternoon #Four

“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

#Thinking #Firsts #My Family

“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

#Thinking #Years #Doe

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

#Teacher #Thinking #World

“I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.”
-- Barbara Cook

#Desire #Quitting

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

#People #Starting Over #Needs

“The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.”
-- Barbara Cook

#Lying #Safety #Dangerous

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

#Looks #Remember #Photograph

“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

#New Year #Years #Symphony