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Mose Allison

I sang and wrote songs when I...

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

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Mose Allison

It was the British rockers th...

It was the British rockers that saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie Fame and Van Morrison and all those people. The only person who ever did my songs in [ U.S] country was Bonnie Raitt.

Mose Allison 72 quotes
Mose Allison

I start out with words, with ...

I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line those lines would be suited to. As soon as I find the form I can finish the song in my head.

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Mose Allison

I don't sit down to write a s...

I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.

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Mose Allison

My dad was a self-taught stri...

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.

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Mose Allison

I told [my daughter Amy] at a...

I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.

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Mose Allison

I never thought I was playing...

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.

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Mose Allison

I remember the first check I ...

I remember the first check I got from The Who's recording [of "Young Man Blues"]. I'd been getting checks for $10 and $15 and so forth, and this one was for a much larger amount than that. I thought it was a mistake.

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Mose Allison

I don't care what anyone does...

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

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Mose Allison

I started going to a piano te...

I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.

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Mose Allison

I don't remember any impressi...

I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

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Mose Allison

I have lots of CDs that came ...

I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.

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Mose Allison

The things that really matter...

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

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Mose Allison

I was taking chemical enginee...

I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.

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Mose Allison

You always want to write the ...

You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.

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Mose Allison

If it's worth remembering, I'...

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.

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Mose Allison

The idea was I'd never amount...

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.

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Mose Allison

I never bothered about keeping...

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

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Mose Allison

I'm happy whenever anybody doe...

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 72 quotes
Mose Allison

I don't care what anyone does,...

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

Mose Allison 72 quotes

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