Maureen Forrester Quotes

When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies.

I love that President and Mrs. Obama are embracing the arts. I am so delighted.

The arts need funding.

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

I'm one of the strongest advocates for the arts you'll ever find!

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

I'd clean house at the National Endowment for the Arts ... the place would be shut down, padlocked and fumigated.

The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support.

I feel like Canada is really good at nurturing their artists, and America's not so good at that. The artistic community is so important to a country.

Just as a city cannot protect its manufacturing base without keeping its factories, we cannot have a strong arts sector without studios, rehearsal space, and performance venues.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.