Top 39 Suzuki Shinichi Quotes
#1. I played with children so that I could learn from them.
Shinichi Suzuki
#2. 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
#4. 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
#6. To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others. These harsh words pierced me to the core.
Shinichi Suzuki
#9. 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
#11. I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.
Shinichi Suzuki
#13. If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.
Shinichi Suzuki
#15. Where love is deep much can be accomplished. - SHINICHI SUZUKI
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#18. If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.
Shinichi Suzuki
#20. Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
Shinichi Suzuki
#21. 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.
Shinichi Suzuki
#22. 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.
Shinichi Suzuki
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.
Shinichi Suzuki
#26. 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
#28. Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.
Shinichi Suzuki
#32. What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty
Shinichi Suzuki
#33. Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.
Shinichi Suzuki
#34. An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.
Shinichi Suzuki
#36. 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
#37. A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.
Shinichi Suzuki
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