David Selby Quotes

The arts need funding.

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

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.

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.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

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.

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

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

… 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.

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

In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.

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.

If the arts are in peril, we must do our small part to to fight the good fight and protect and preserve.

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

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

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

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

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

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

We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

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.