Arts and Culture Quotes

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'

When I'm finished with politics, I'll have a richer life. I'd like to go to the theatre.

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

School would have been pretty dead really for me without music. I liked IT, and English was all right, but that was it.

A lot of my work involves criss-crossing London to visit the many hundreds of projects, theaters, galleries, museums and groups that comprise the capital's astonishingly rich cultural life.

In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.

The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible regime understood that human beings have to express themselves, through music, even at a bad level. All kids studied music automatically, just as they did maths or languages or sport.

I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.

Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.

Mumbai is more film based and cosmopolitan. It consists of a mixed community, but I personally feel that Delhi is more sophisticated and enjoys theatre more.

In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.

Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

Our creative communities in Nashville, in L.A. and New York, and in Austin, those are communities you want to see stay viable.

My style is to service my community through entertainment and products.

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.

The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

London centre has a wealth of creative activity but there are parts of London where there isn't a cinema or where library provision is quite weak.