Shinichi Suzuki famous 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.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Mother #Children #Musical

Children learn to smile from their parents.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Smile #Children #Father

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.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Fate #Ideas #People

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.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Beautiful #Children #Heart

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#World #Save The World

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Heart #Growing #Purpose

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

#Fun #Children #Parent

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

#Children #People #World

Man is a child of his environment
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Children #Men #Environment

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Teacher #Children #Grows

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

#Beautiful #Spirit #Importance

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.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Personality #Feelings #Mind

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

#Inspirational Life #Men #Looks

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.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Disappointment #Effort #Despair

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Inspirational #Skills #Plus

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

#Children

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

#Artist #Want #Firsts

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.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Thinking #Doors #Done

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
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Art #Thinking #People

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

#Children #Educational #Environment

Man is the Child of his Environment
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Children #Men #Environment

Tone has the living soul.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Soul #Tone

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

#Children #Fate #Hands

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

#Art #Men #Expression

The heart that feels music will feel people
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Heart #People #Feels

Music is the language of the heart without words.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Heart #Language #Music Is

I cannot live without children.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Children

I play with children so that I can learn from them.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Children #Play

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.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Years #Mind #Want

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.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Art #Real #Self

Where love is deep, much can be accomplished.
-- Shinichi Suzuki

#Love Is #Accomplished