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Mose Allison Quotes

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And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him  (Mose Allison Quotes) I have no idea what I’m doin’. I’ve never seen me.  (Mose Allison Quotes) A young man ain’t nothin’ in the world these days  (Mose Allison Quotes) I just have a lot off different influences  (Mose Allison Quotes) The thing of playin’ and singin’ never bothered me  (Mose Allison Quotes) I’m playin’ the music I like  (Mose Allison Quotes) I haven’t stopped and I don’t plan on stoppin’ any time soon  (Mose Allison Quotes) All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of ‘em sang blues  (Mose Allison Quotes) 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 Quotes) It’s as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin’ there is a little harder  (Mose Allison Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden  (Mose Allison Quotes) I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York  (Mose Allison Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) So I’m in my 51st year of playin’ mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts  (Mose Allison Quotes) The jazz boom was goin’ on then so there was a lot happenin’ in New York at that time  (Mose Allison Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 at different times and different places, then I feel it’s worth making a song out of  (Mose Allison Quotes) My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don’t whether it’s true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano  (Mose Allison Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 songs.  (Mose Allison Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more  (Mose Allison Quotes) I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain  (Mose Allison Quotes) The things that really matter don’t mix with idle chatter  (Mose Allison Quotes)
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