Shinichi Suzuki Quotes

Children learn to smile from their parents.

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.

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

Patience is the absence of expectation.

It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.

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

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

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

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

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

The heart that feels music will feel people

Practise only as many times as you have breakfast.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

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.

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.

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.

Tone has the living soul.

Where love is deep, much can be accomplished.

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

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

I play with children so that I can learn from them.

Man is a child of his environment

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

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

I cannot live without children.

Live by looking for things to do for other people.

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

Man is the Child of his Environment

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.

As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.

First character, then ability.

I played with children so that I could learn from them.