He was a railway porter and a self-taught musician. From Wordnik.com. [Jazz Pianist Oscar Peterson Dies at 82] Reference
He is still another of the sculptors who is self-taught. From Wordnik.com. [Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts] Reference
(Soundbite of music) ROSE: Tharpe was a self-taught guitarist. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Etched In Stone At Last] Reference
She has to do that, she says, because she's entirely self-taught. From Wordnik.com. [Black and White and Read All Over] Reference
Jimi was a self-taught musician, and I'm pretty much self-taught. From Wordnik.com. [Even Moguls Play Air Guitar] Reference
Scottish hero by James Thorn (1802-1850), a self-taught sculptor. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
James Ballantine must, however, be considered as a self-taught man. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
I'm a working journalist, plus biographer and self-taught historian. From Wordnik.com. [Requiem for the Right] Reference
And my father, who was self-taught entirely, knew a lot about music. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Glass: Complex Minimalist] Reference
She is mostly self-taught on the piano, but was rigorous in her approach. From Wordnik.com. [A Ballad of New York, Lived and Played for All] Reference
Sir Edward Elgar was the son of a piano tuner and was largely self-taught. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Elgar, Britain's Musical Icon, Turns 150] Reference
I asked him, but he was self-taught, too, so he couldn't give me any advice. From Wordnik.com. [Enrico Rava, Italy's Gift to Jazz] Reference
I always find it very amusing that people say are you self-taught, you know?. From Wordnik.com. [Exploring the Soul of Raul Midon] Reference
Mr. Dennis, a self-taught bug chef, has long had a fascination with insects. From Wordnik.com. [Would You Like Flies With That? Bug Eaters Try to Get Some Buzz] Reference
A self-taught Marxist, Mugabe is an unlikely candidate for sudden conversion. From Wordnik.com. [The Road To Capital] Reference
He was a self-taught artist, and was gifted with considerable natural genius. From Wordnik.com. [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference
Swales, a self-taught but respected scholar, gave the feud its operatic drama. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With Sigmund] Reference
He was a self-taught draughtsman, who learned by watching his younger brother. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Wires snaked from computer to computer; self-taught technicians debugged the software. From Wordnik.com. [Tuning In, Turning On] Reference
Now 46, Cramer, a gifted, self-taught photographer, is known internationally for his work. From Wordnik.com. [Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News] Reference
After college Mason, a self-taught computer programmer, landed a coding gig at InnerWorkings. From Wordnik.com. [Meet The Fastest Growing Company Ever] Reference
(Remarkably, Wilson quit school in his early teens; he was an entirely self-taught virtuoso.). From Wordnik.com. [Transition] Reference
The scientific community was less willing to embrace the research of a self-taught primatologist. From Wordnik.com. [From Savage to Savvy: A New Understanding of Chimps] Reference
A self-taught student of history, Rove had studied William McKinley's 1896 "front porch" campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Pumping Iron, Digging Gold, Pressing Flesh] Reference
Lott Gary's self-denying, self-sacrificing labors, as a self-taught Physician, as a Missionary and. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
His father, a self-taught musician and railway porter, insisted that all of his children learn music. From Wordnik.com. [Jazz Pianist Oscar Peterson Dies, 82] Reference
SIMON: She's a self-taught guitarist, singer, and songwriter who's been playing gigs since she was 15. From Wordnik.com. [Amy MacDonald: A Self-Taught Scot] Reference
Although guitar is not as critical as surgery, but you would never want a self-taught surgeon to do surgery. From Wordnik.com. [Exploring the Soul of Raul Midon] Reference
(Soundbite of jazz music) VITALE: Enrico Rava's fluid sound belies the fact that he is a self-taught musician. From Wordnik.com. [Enrico Rava, Italy's Gift to Jazz] Reference
Day was perhaps the most temperamental, a feisty, self-taught, model-turned-photographer with attitude to burn. From Wordnik.com. [Corinne Day: she added grit to the glamour of fashion photography] Reference
BR: On that subject, Mike, my deal is that I'm a self-taught blues-rock guitar player from Glendale, California. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: Dukes of September, McCartney's Guitarist & An Australian's Tourabout : Conversations With Michael McDonald, Brian Ray, and Xavier Rudd] Reference
A blind, self-taught activist lawyer who documented forced abortions and other abuses was released from a Chinese prison. From Wordnik.com. [What's News] Reference
Breuker was a self-taught composer who often wrote for the theater, and as a theater guy, he had no problems repeating a joke. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Dutch Jazz Musician Willem Breuker] Reference
The motorcyclists were found to be essentially without training; 92 percent were self-taught or learned from family or friends. From Wordnik.com. [How to reduce the risk of getting hurt on a motorcycle] Reference
Bacon had a profitable flirtation with interior design, but in 1931 he gave it up for the chancy career of a self-taught painter. From Wordnik.com. [Of Hopelessness And Hope] Reference
The 50-year-old Rove, brilliant and bespectacled, is a largely self-taught and obsessively knowledgeable student of American history. From Wordnik.com. [Leader Of The Pack] Reference
The outspoken, self-taught clarinetist also became a media darling whose personal life attracted as much attention as his profession. From Wordnik.com. [Artie Shaw At 100: Celebrating A Swing Era Sensation] Reference
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