I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. — 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 Image
My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. — 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 was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was… — 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
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
If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see… — 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
It was the British rockers that saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find… — 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)
![“It was the British rockers that saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie Fame and Van Morrison and all those people. The only person who ever did my songs in [ U.S] country was Bonnie Raitt.” quote by Mose Allison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/943/mose-allison-11837_british_it-was-the-british-rockers-that-saved-me_1460662.jpg)
