Elizabeth Cotten

At the age of seven, she would steal into her brother's room while he was at work and play his homemade banjo. Broken strings betrayed her borrowing, but, even though her brother complained about it, he never scolded her or forbade her to play the instrument. Cotten tried to learn with the banjo re-strung for a left-handed player but eventually returned to her upside down method and proceeded to learn on her own. Later, she delighted her audiences with her standard declaration, "Nobody did teach me, everything I know, I learned all by myself, so, I give myself all of the credit."
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