Quotes by Mose Allison

About Mose Allison:

Mose John Allison, Jr. is an American jazz blues pianist, singer and songwriter.
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All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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I just have a lot off different influences.

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

Mose Allison

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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 somewhere.

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Author Bio

  • NameMose Allison
  • DescriptionAmerican jazz blues pianist and singer
  • BornNovember 11, 1927
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPianist; Jazz Musician