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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.