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
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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.
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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.
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I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
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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.
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Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
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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.
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I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.
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I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.
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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.
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I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
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If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.
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