Self taught Quotes

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

— Sam Palladio

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

— Hanneli Mustaparta

I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.

— Agnes Denes

I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to…

— Yigal Azrouel

My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at…

— Brian Wilson

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

— Adam Jones

Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit…

— Sue Grafton

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

— Richard Meale

Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character.…

— William Zinsser

When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's…

— Cass McCombs

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

— Judah Friedlander

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of…

— Fred Couples

Many people who excel are self-taught.

— Herb Ritts

I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I…

— Billy Joel

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

— Katherine Dunn

It has been an incredible journey for a singer like me who is self taught.

— Sonu Kakkar

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in…

— Zubin Mehta

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

— Henny Youngman

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

— Harpo Marx

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go…

— Tim Heidecker

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed.…

— Fred L. Turner

[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either…

— John Desmond Bernal

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

— Sixto Rodriguez

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

— Reggie Watts