Barbara Walters Quotes

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

I feel like when I'm on stage and when I'm performing - or I think when anybody is developing their talents and sharing it - I think you glow.

There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.

For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

I miss the physicality of drumming. There's immediateness about it that I'm always striving for in my acting. Maybe I'm in the wrong profession. I certainly wish I could spend more time pursuing music. It feels like a part of me I'm neglecting.

I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life.

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.