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Mose Allison

Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.

— Mose Allison god

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

— Mose Allison idea

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

— Mose Allison men

But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.

— Mose Allison good

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.

— Mose Allison good

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

— Mose Allison

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

— Mose Allison men

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

— Mose Allison time

It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.

— Mose Allison you

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison influence

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

— Mose Allison time

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 couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

— Mose Allison art

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 music

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 music

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 humor

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 time

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

— Mose Allison sin

Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.

— Mose Allison problems

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

— Mose Allison play

And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.

— Mose Allison

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

— Mose Allison people

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

— Mose Allison living

I just have a lot off different influences.

— Mose Allison influence

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

— Mose Allison rain

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

— Mose Allison song

Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. Ive been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. Its a nice little club. Its just about the right size for me, about 150 people.

— Mose Allison god

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