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. — 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
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 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 other people's… — 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. I don't… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
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 Image
I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. — 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 and stopped… — 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 hard enough… — 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 like to… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
