Notable Quotations
"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 (1898-1998)
"Tone has the living soul." - Shinichi Suzuki (1898-1998)
“What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.” - Shinichi Suzuki (1898-1998)
"It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit." - Shinichi Suzuki (1898-1998)
"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 (1898-1998)
"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 (1898-1998)