“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.”
“I played with children so that I could learn from them.”
“Perhaps it is music that will save the world.”
“Beautiful tone, beautiful heart.”
“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.”
“If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.”
“I cannot live without children.”