Mose Allison ,quotes

At this point, I don't listen ...

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

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But I got an audience that kno...

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

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I been getting good crowds. It...

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

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I can't judge my own stuff. Th...

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 mom...

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. Hardl...

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 goi...

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

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There's a few tunes of mine th...

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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A young man ain't nothin' in t...

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

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Ever since the world ended, I ...

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

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The things that really matter ...

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

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I have lots of CDs that came o...

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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I didn't feel anything [frustr...

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

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

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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I'm not inspired by songwritin...

I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.

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I'm improvising all the time. ...

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

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

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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My dad was a self-taught strid...

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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I started going to a piano tea...

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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I don't remember any impressio...

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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