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.

Man is a child of his environment

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

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

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.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.