I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go.… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything.… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much.… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it. — Mose Allison Copy Share
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and… — Mose Allison Copy Share
I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's… — Mose Allison Copy Share
I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't… — Mose Allison Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. — Mose Allison Copy Share
I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped… — Mose Allison Copy Share
The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough… — Mose Allison Copy Share
You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to… — Mose Allison Copy Share
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. — Mose Allison Copy Share
I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different… — Mose Allison Copy Share
![“[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.” quote by Mose Allison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f44/mose-allison-11837_color_the-producer-told-me-we-can-try-one-more_2631361.jpg)
![“I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.” quote by Mose Allison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7bb/mose-allison-11837_age_i-told-my-daughter-amy-at-an-early-age-t_2390172.jpg)
