Maureen Forrester Quotes

I fell in love with it after going there on holiday when I was 16: we went on one of those red bus tours, and it goes past Juilliard, and I was like, 'I want to go there'.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.

I went to Manhattan Center High School.

I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.

When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.

Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

I came to New York to study ballet and English.

I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be to get the best bartending job I could find and do theater in New York. And that was a good life.

When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school!

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.

The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you can't afford it, you can get a scholarship.

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

There is more opportunity for a nobody to become a somebody in Washington than in the whirl-pool of New York.