Shinichi Suzuki Quotes

Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

Where love is deep, much can be accomplished.

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.

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

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

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

The heart that feels music will feel people

Practise only as many times as you have breakfast.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

To make a resolution and act accordingly is to live with hope. There may be difficulties and hardships, but not disappointment or despair if you follow the path steadily. Do not hurry. This is a fundamental rule. If you hurry and collapse or tumble down, nothing is achieved. DO not rest in your efforts; this is another fundamental rule. Without stopping, without haste, carefully taking a step at a time forward will surely get you there.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

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

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

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.

Patience is the absence of expectation.

Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.

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

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

Live by looking for things to do for other people.

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

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

Man is a child of his environment

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.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.