Mose Allison ,quotes

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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I was taking chemical engineer...

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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[The producer told me:] 'We c...

[The producer told me:] 'We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does.' Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

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The British rockers saved me. ...

The British rockers 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.

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I remember the first check I g...

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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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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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.

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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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I just try to do as good job w...

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

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I start out with words, with t...

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

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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You always want to write the p...

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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Everybody cryin' mercy / When...

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

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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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I never sit down and write. I ...

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

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The jazz boom was goin' on the...

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

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I've heard some tunes in recen...

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

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Traveling these days has a lot...

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

Mose Allison 13.07.2011 18:34:50 72 quotes

There's a lot of terrible thin...

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

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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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