Maureen Forrester Quotes

19 quotes in 351 categories

• I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application…
• Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be…
• After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful…
• I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but…
• My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always…
• I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.
• Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
• By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody…
• I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
• I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.
• I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
• If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.
• Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.
• My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.
• Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many…
• That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them…
• 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…
• It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
• Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that…

Browse Maureen Forrester Quotes by Category