Bill Dedman Quotes

I loved working in Pittsburgh - the theater there is amazing, so many different types of theater.

We're both very passionate about the arts. Mom, of course with her arts background. I have a theater background and work with children.

Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible.

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

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.

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

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

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

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

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

It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls.

Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come true.

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

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.

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.

When you have a community that's strong in the arts, it brings all sorts of attention and different businesses into the community.

I've a lot of respect for what people are doing here in Manchester, to promote the city's creativity and Aviva Investors Manchester Art Fair has played a big role in that. I'm glad to bring my work to the North West.

They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.

We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and theatre. If you were a man of the world and you mingled among the happy few, you would be at the opera.