Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
I derive a lot of joy from cooking. Had cooking been a mandatory task, I probably would have felt differently about it.
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.
I didn't push any of my kids into golf, and they played golf because they wanted to.
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.
