I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
These people that think I'm cynical, I wish they'd come to see my shows these days because I've turned into a comedian, practically. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I'm pretty much self-centered in that way. I don't try to predict what's gonna happen to jazz or anything like that. Nobody knows what jazz. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Louis Jordan, I always liked him as well. - Mose Allison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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