Hugh Hefner

I have music inside me and I’m very lucky to be able to play music and that’s the way that I try to do it.

It’s easy to play any musical instrument, just touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.

I’m creating music – it doesn’t matter if anyone else likes it.

There’s such a cynicism about the phrase ‘I laughed all the way to the bank.’ It’s as though money is what you’re doing, rather than playing music. If you’re playing a money game, why not get into banking?

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can’t define it beyond that.

Jazz without the Blues is like BBQ without the sauce.

Music is interior decoration.

Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it.

No one remembers who wrote the tune, putting pen to paper in some lonely place. They remember who had the hit.

I think you can play anything you wanna as long as you take the audience along with you.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don’t like that. I listen to everything.

The qualities in music I consider most important are beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination and sincerity.