38 Quotes by Maureen Forrester

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.

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.

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

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.

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.