Richie Sambora Quotes

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

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.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

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 didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

As a guitar player, you never stop learning, never stop honing your skills.

I self-taught myself music at 19-20.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

So I started to learn guitar right away.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.