10 famous self-taught musicians

When I was a kid, I thought you had to take formal lessons to learn music. Piano lessons, reading music, proper guitar technique — all that stuff. But the more musicians I listened to, the more I realised that so many of them didn’t do any of that. They just picked up an instrument and got on with it.

Some didn’t even have a full set of strings. Others have made entire albums using just a phone. And somehow, those raw, untrained instincts shaped some of the most influential music ever recorded.

This isn’t about being anti-education. It’s about showing how creativity often thrives outside the rules, and what we can learn from the people who proved that.