Shinichi Suzuki

“Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If a child hears fine music from the day of his birth, and learns to play it himself, he develops sensitivity, discipline and endurance. He gets a beautiful heart.”

Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”

Plato

“Music training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul.”

Confucius

“Music produces a kind of pleasure that human nature cannot do without.”

Paul Hindemith

“People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least not while the music lasts.”

Albert Einstein

“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.” (When asked about his theory of relativity)

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”