Mose Allison quotes

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express. (Mose Allison)
I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me. View quote
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I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years. View quote
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I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. View quote
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But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good. View quote
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And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him. View quote
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I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. View quote
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I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's 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. View quote
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I'm 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. View quote
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There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere. View quote
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I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. (Mose Allison)
I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. View quote
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All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. View quote
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I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me. View quote
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My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. View quote
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Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people. View quote
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So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts. View quote
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The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time. (Mose Allison)
I'm playin' the music I like. View quote
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As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. View quote
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I've 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. View quote
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The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me. View quote
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