Roy Cooper: “I do have the privilege of representing Nashville, Tennessee, and outlying communities in the United States Congress…”

“I do have the privilege of representing Nashville, Tennessee, and outlying communities in the United States Congress, and we commonly go by the name Music City, U.S.A. We are very proud of that because we may have more creative individuals in our area than perhaps any other community of the world. Some say that everyone who lives there is either a musician or a songwriter, and some just haven't cut their demos yet. We are very proud of that musical tradition and heritage, and we believe music should be included in the curriculum in our public schools. Music education is vitally important, not only for the reasons that my two colleagues have given... A shocking number of our young people, some 30 million or more, are being deprived of this music education.”