Mose Allison Quotes

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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…
• I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line…
• If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see manifestations of it…
• You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write…
• 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 to…
• All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
• A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days
• Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much
• 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…
• I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.
• The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
• 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…
• As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
• And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.
• I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.
• I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.
• 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…
• I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.
• I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.
• I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

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