I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
Adam Jones
Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society.
Alan Furst
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
Alan Garner
My mom is a self-taught home cook, so books that offer guidelines on how to organize menus are critical to 'cook from the book' people like her.
Alex Guarnaschelli
I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.
Baba Kalyani
I wanted a guitar when I was 4 or 5, and I learned how to play guitar by the time I was 6. Just self-taught.
Blackbear
My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano.
Brian Wilson
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.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
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 personalities and individual energies.
Cass McCombs
Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.
Charlie Sifford
My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
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.
Daphne Guinness
Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.
Ellen Ullman
My approach to being a self-taught programmer was to find out who was smart and who would be helpful, and these were - these are both men and women. And without learning from my co-workers, I never could've gone on in the profession as long as I did.
I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.
Ernie Isley
Prince was a hero. He was the brother, the black man that was a little different. As a kid, you thought, 'Wow, he's different. If he can do it, I can do it.' I read that he was self-taught, so I started teaching myself to play the piano.
Fantastic Negrito
I self-taught myself music at 19-20.
Fawad Khan
You know, I grew up very self-taught.
Finneas
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 people.
Fred Couples
I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.
Fred L. Turner
Apart from my work, my greatest pleasures have been mainly out-of-doors, and although I no longer ski, I greatly enjoy walking in the mountains and leading country rambles. I am fond of music, whether light or classical, and play the piano in a self-taught way. In company, I enjoy lively, way-out discussions.
I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
I'm not a trained chef. I'm a self-taught cook, and I want people to be like, 'Yo, I could do that! Maybe I didn't think to or maybe it seemed harder than it really is.'
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Many people who excel are self-taught.
I'm self-taught, and fake eyelashes definitely took the longest to master. I glued my eyes shut at least 15 times.
I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.
I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.
Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.
I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.
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'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.
I'm pretty much self-taught - I never went to any courses. If I want to learn about, say, the frontal lobe, I'll buy 40 books and absorb them in a couple of weeks. I'm a nerd like that.
My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day.
I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard.
The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.
I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!
I'm a self-taught actor, which means that I had to learn everything on my own, as I wanted to know the craft deeper and deeper.
There are many actors who have not been trained, but self-taught means one cannot be limited. It means you're continuously learning.
I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.
As far as inspiration, the most I got from YouTube was that I'm kind of self-taught by watching YouTube tutorials on how to use Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro. I just taught myself enough to produce the content that I had in my head.
I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.
Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.
Simple genome engineering of bacteria and yeast is just the beginning of the rise of the true biohackers. This is a community of several thousand people, with skill sets ranging from self-taught software hackers to biology postdocs who are impatient with the structure of traditional institutional lab work.
I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
I play by ear - I'm self-taught. And so everything I do is through that technique.
I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.
