Shinichi Suzuki Quotes (19 Quotes)

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

Man is a child of his environment.

Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Tone has the living soul.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate. Consequently th

Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

When love is deep, much can be accomplished.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

Art expresses man.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.