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Mose Allison - From the Audience category:
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)
Mose Allison - From the Fun category:
It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder. (Mose Allison)
Mose Allison - From the Humour category:
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 somewhere. (Mose Allison)
Mose Allison - From the Ideas category:
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. (Mose Allison)
Mose Allison - From the Influence category:
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)
Mose Allison - From the Influence category:
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. (Mose Allison)
Mose Allison - From the Listening category:
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)
Mose Allison - From the Money category:
I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. (Mose Allison)
Mose Allison - From the Music category:
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)
Mose Allison - From the Music category:
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. (Mose Allison)
Mose Allison - From the Performance category:
I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me. (Mose Allison)
Mose Allison - From the Silence category:
The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter. (Mose Allison)
Mose Allison - From the Travel category:
Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more. (Mose Allison)
Mose Allison - From the Writing category:
I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. (Mose Allison)
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