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 ve….

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 t….

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

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

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….

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..

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

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

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 ar….

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

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 fabul….

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 ….

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes..

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 wo….

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 co….

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 hat….

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….

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20..