If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

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

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.

Live by looking for things to do for other people.

To make a resolution and act accordingly is to live with hope. There may be difficulties and hardships, but not disappointment or despair if you follow the path steadily. Do not hurry. This is a fundamental rule. If you hurry and collapse or tumble down, nothing is achieved. DO not rest in your efforts; this is another fundamental rule. Without stopping, without haste, carefully taking a step at a time forward will surely get you there.

I cannot live without children.

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