After school Quote by J. J. Watt

Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.

— Steven Tyler

If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more…

— Dan Hill

Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to express themselves.

— Ted Poe

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

— Lucy Powell

Cuts in a sector are never going to be welcomed, and arts funding cut by up to 30% doesn't make nice reading. But cuts…

— Roxanne Emery

Too many schools across the country have cut back heavily on their music curricula.

— Henry Mancini

More than 50 percent of kids who play an instrument go on to college, yet music education programs at the inner city public schools…

— Clarence Clemons

I understand that everyone around the world has the global economy crisis and the budgets on education are being cut and the first thing…

— Sean Mackin

Economic background should not be a reason for not learning music!

— Shankar Mahadevan

The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

— Gerald R. Ford

You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind…

— Robert Hass

Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.

— Lupe Fiasco