A Lingering Amateurism

"My credentials are in part a lingering amateurism; that is to say, a love that resists too much learning.  I have always avoided acquiring more erudition than was necessary. A little learning is a good thing, but too large a learning begets a taste for more and more, and before you know it, the ambition to know overcomes the desire to do, first embarrassing it, then bullying it into hiding."

Excerpt from Notes On The Piano by Ernst Bacon