Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.
Charles MingusI'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.
Charles MingusI always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.
Charles Mingus