Love Quote by Bernadette Peters

There is something quietly radical in Peters treating canonical show tunes as a living playlist rather than a sealed museum piece. By naming "Some Enchanted Evening" and "If I Loved You" - two of musical theater's most overexposed love songs - she signals impeccable taste, then immediately undercuts the idea that mastery is a finished state. The point isn't nostalgia; it's stamina. These songs are famously built on longing and restraint, and Peters is saying the real thrill is in their elasticity: the way a lyric lands differently when your own life has changed, when your breath changes, when your sense of humor sharpens, when the ache in the subtext stops being theoretical.

The phrasing matters: "as I sing them more and more" frames repetition as discovery, not routine. For an actress whose career has been defined by making familiar material feel freshly human, that's a credo about craft. Great standards don't reward the first reading; they reward the hundredth, when you can stop performing sincerity and start locating it. "I find new favorites" is also a subtle flex of humility. She isn't claiming to elevate the songs; she's letting the songs re-arrange her.

Contextually, it's a defense of repertoire in an era addicted to novelty. Peters argues that the classics endure because they keep moving - and because a performer brave enough to keep revisiting them will keep changing, too.