Quotes About Self-taught

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.

Some of our best writers are self taught. Screenwriting is a combo of craft and art. The craft part can be taught, about how to be visual and economical with scenes. However, finally it's the individuality of the writer that will come into play.

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself.

You know, I grew up very self-taught.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

I self-taught myself music at 19-20.

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day.

I play the piano and that's how I learned about music. I then taught myself the guitar, drums, percussion and various other things, such as the bazooka, the mandolin, the Theremin, the alpine horn, the didgeridoo.

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself. I just started taking vocal lessons to just work on my breathing, my vowels and stuff.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.

God is the counselor of the self-taught.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing.

This process—called "machine learning"—was the core method by which AIs taught themselves.

I'm self-taught. I didn't just become a man, it was a decision.