Its better to be an extraordinary amateur, than an ordinary professional
- who the fu*k is lex-x? (british band)

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
~Richard Bach

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
~Alan Greenspan

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling