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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

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years. — Mose Allison

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid. — Mose Allison

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

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word. — Mose Allison

And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him. — Mose Allison

Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much — Mose Allison

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 do anything with it. — Mose Allison

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

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

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

Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison. — John Mayall

I'm playin' the music I like. — Mose Allison

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

I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year. — Mose Allison

The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter. — Mose Allison

I just have a lot off different influences. — Mose Allison

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least. — Mose Allison

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

I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it. — Mose Allison

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

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

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

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

Mose Allison is a beautiful musician. — Willie Dixon

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

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me. — Mose Allison

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. — Mose Allison

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

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

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues — Ray Davies

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

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

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts. — Mose Allison

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

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. — Mose Allison

A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days — Mose Allison

I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office. — Mose Allison