Quotes About Self-taught

Music was my first love, and at Marlborough we put bands together and sang the pop songs of the day. Although I couldn't read or write music - I still can't - I taught myself to play the guitar and piano by listening to songs and working out the chords.

From an early age, my initiative took many forms - teaching myself magic so I could do magic shows, buying wholesale goods and then selling them to other kids, learning many languages.

Like Ben Franklin, Hamilton was mostly self-taught and probably snatched every spare moment to read. The

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar my father gave me.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

When I did my first film, I didn't have formal training; I didn't work under any director. I really didn't know how to make a film.

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.

I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.

I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Nobody told me how to sing, so I just thought I'd try and sing like Howlin' Wolf. It was like a bark; there was melody to it - but I would go off a bit and I wouldn't stick AutoTune on it or anything to make it in key. Even now, I couldn't tell you about harmonies. I couldn't tell about what notes I'm singing because nobody taught me to sing.

I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.

autodidacts.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.

I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It's a great thing to work through problems on your own.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.