Art Quote by Jerome Isaac Friedman

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

— Shankar Mahadevan

The musical culture in the United States has no doubt suffered severe setbacks, especially in funding, since the early 2000's. However, I've been amazed…

— Michael Hersch

Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.

— Anderson East

We were kids that didn't have any education. None of our parents were in the music business or even college graduates. We didn't have…

— Benji Madden

It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half their intellect…

— Andris Nelsons

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

— Judith Durham

I wanted to do music at school but they discouraged it. If you did music you couldn't do technical drawing, which meant you couldn't…

— Paul Young

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and…

— Gary Wright

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

— Elliott Carter

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

— Curt Sachs

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

— Duke Ellington

Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned a lot…

— Luka Sulic