source: "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

topic: Teacher, School, Self, Self Taught

I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

- Judah Friedlander

topic: School, Self, Taught, Self Taught

In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

topic: Self, Done, Fields, Professional Work, Self Taught

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

- Tom Six

topic: Art, Believe, School, Self Taught

I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

- Jason Mraz

topic: Writing, Self, Musician, Self Taught

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

- Richard Meale

source: "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

topic: Self, Taught, Study, Self Taught

Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

- Charles Kennedy

topic: Party, Self, Leader, Paddy, Mrs Thatcher

[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.

- John Desmond Bernal

topic: Simple, Self, Ambitious, Self Taught

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy , for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning , poverty forces us to practice .

- Diogenes

source: "Anthology (Book 4)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

topic: Philosophy, Self, Practice, Self Taught

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

- Alan Garner

source: Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

topic: Men, Self, Grandfather, Great Grandfather, Self Taught

My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.

- Bill Crow

topic: Song, Morning, Reading, Snowfall, Fingerboard

I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.

- Don Hertzfeldt

source: Source: www.notcoming.com

topic: Art, School, Thinking, Film School, Self Taught

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

- John Mayer

topic: Lying, Light, Self, Self Taught

Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character. Golfing is more than keeping the left arm straight. Every good golfer is a complex engine that runs on ability, ego, determination, discipline, patience, confidence, and other qualities that are self-taught. So it is with writers and all creative artists. If their values are solid their work is likely to be solid.

- William Zinsser

topic: Running, Determination, Character, Good Writers, Self Taught

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

- Lois Duncan

topic: Writing, Self, Crafts, Self Taught

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

- Harpo Marx

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Self, Actors, Taught, Self Taught

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

- Billy Cannon

topic: Teaching, Artist, Self, Formal Education, Self Taught

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

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Teacher, School, Self, Self Taught

Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

- Bryce Dessner

topic: Self, Play, Want, Self Taught

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

- Cass McCombs

topic: Self, Play, Joy, Great Musician, Self Taught

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

- Adrian Grenier

topic: Self, Noise, Taught, Self Taught

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

- Curtis Hanson

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Self, Novelists, Taught, Self Taught

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