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.

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

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.