When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family. — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council. — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends. — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about,… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes. — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
