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Mose Allison Quotes
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of em sang blues. - Mose Allison Quotes
And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him. - Mose Allison Quotes
As far as Im concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. - Mose Allison Quotes
At this point, I dont listen to other people too much. Im not really that affected by anyone. - Mose Allison Quotes
But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good. - Mose Allison Quotes
I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years. - Mose Allison Quotes
I cant judge my own stuff. Thats for others. But those are the three things that I admire. - Mose Allison Quotes
I do some concerts. At the moment, Im being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express. - Mose Allison Quotes
I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other peoples tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known. - Mose Allison Quotes
I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. - Mose Allison Quotes
I have no idea what Im doin. Ive never seen me. - Mose Allison Quotes
I havent stopped and I dont plan on stoppin any time soon. - Mose Allison Quotes
I just have a lot off different influences. - Mose Allison Quotes
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes. - Mose Allison Quotes
I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. - Mose Allison Quotes
I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. - Mose Allison Quotes
I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me. - Mose Allison Quotes
Im always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. - Mose Allison Quotes
Im playin music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin to see me than there were 30 years ago or so. - Mose Allison Quotes
Im playin the music I like. - Mose Allison Quotes
Im pretty much self-centered in that way. I dont try to predict whats gonna happen to jazz or anything like that. Nobody knows what jazz. - Mose Allison Quotes
Ive been able to do pretty well. I dont work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but Im still working over 100 nights a year, so thats good for me. - Mose Allison Quotes
Ive heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial. - Mose Allison Quotes
Its as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin there is a little harder. - Mose Allison Quotes
Louis Jordan, I always liked him as well. - Mose Allison Quotes
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. - Mose Allison Quotes
Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. Ive been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. Its a nice little club. Its just about the right size for me, about 150 people. - Mose Allison Quotes
So Im in my 51st year of playin mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts. - Mose Allison Quotes
The jazz boom was goin on then so there was a lot happenin in New York at that time. - Mose Allison Quotes
The thing of playin and singin never bothered me. - Mose Allison Quotes
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