Phil Lesh Quotes

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.

I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts.

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

It's great that 'Glee' is making viewers more aware of the arts. People appreciate it.

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

The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.

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.

They're taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that's a terrible thing.

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

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

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

… perhaps we are awakening to the realization that if individuals can no longer patronize the arts in the way they did in the old days, we may come to a time where the public will undertake to do this for its own pleasure and profit.

Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.

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

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.

I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.

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

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