Maureen Forrester Quotes
"Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Life, Canada)
"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 who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Time, Mother, End)
"I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Childhood)
"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 who have been fabulous to me."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: People, Will, World)
"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 arranging church activities such as a bazaar."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Mother, Church, Children, Cooking, Housework, Voice, Woman)
"I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20."
- Maureen Forrester
"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 they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Life, Mistake, People, Alcohol, Bed, Drugs, Future, Problems, Roses, Ruin)
"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
(Related: Women, Mother, Christian, Baseball, Hate, Meetings, Play, Temperance)
"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 that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Service)
"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 time all over the world."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Time, Career, World, Years)
"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 phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Music, Spiritual)
"My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Life, People)
"Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: People, Jobs, Living)
"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
(Related: Blame, Mistakes)
"If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do."
- Maureen Forrester
"I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Family)
"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 from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Graduation, Thought, School, Study)
"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 worked at very hard."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: People, Language, Singing)