Best 32 quotes of Shinichi Suzuki on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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.

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

Children learn to smile from their parents.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Live by looking for things to do for other people.

Man is a child of his environment

Man is the Child of his Environment

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 exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Patience is the absence of expectation.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

Practise only as many times as you have breakfast.

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

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.

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.

Tone has the living soul.

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

Where love is deep, much can be accomplished.

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.

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.

Beautiful tone, beautiful heart.

First character, then ability.

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