Julian Bream Quotes

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

I self-taught myself music at 19-20.

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

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

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

When I found I could not figure something out, I decided to learn about it, until I knew as much as I could. It's my way.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.