Maureen Forrester Quotes

Canadian - Musician July 25, 1930 - June 16, 2010

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

Mistakes, Blame, Better Person, Better

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

Simple, People, World, Me, Nobody, Will

If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do. Maureen Forrester

Good, Me, Young, Always, Singer

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

Life, Future, Mistake, Alcohol, People

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one. Maureen Forrester

Childhood, Year, Wonderful, Had

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

Time, World, Career, Years, Wonderful

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council. Maureen Forrester

Life, My Life, Canada, Turn, Happened

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

Mother, Time, Walk, End, Wait, Stop

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends. Maureen Forrester

Good, Children, Great, Husband, Friends

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20. Maureen Forrester

Grandchildren, Three, Hoping, Am

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

Graduation, School, New York, Me, Place

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family. Maureen Forrester

Family, Born, I Was Born, Montreal, Came

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people. Maureen Forrester

People, Living, Arts, Many, Making, Jobs

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about. Maureen Forrester

Life, People, Book, My Life, Know, Lot

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

Mother, Children, Cooking, Woman, Loved

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

Music, Great, Spiritual, I Am, Wonderful

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

Beautiful, People, Singing, Language

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

Service, Professional, Young, You, Stage

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

Mother, Women, Hate, Baseball, Me, Doing

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