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

- Maureen Forrester

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

- Maureen Forrester

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

- Maureen Forrester

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

- Maureen Forrester

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…

- Maureen Forrester

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

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…

- Maureen Forrester

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…

- Maureen Forrester