Amateur Quote by Patti Smith

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

— David Lee Roth

Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more…

— India Arie

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

— Jerome Kern

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain…

— Simon van der Meer

Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don't make an aggressive move. You'd be surprised how…

— Keegan Bradley

You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history…

— Dan Jenkins

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of…

— Marshall McLuhan

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

— Chelsea Cain

I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think…

— Ernie Els

“The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.”

— Alan Sheinwald

Every artist was first an amateur.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

— Taron Egerton