Mose Allison

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

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.

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.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.

I'm tired of being 51st in this country on the NEAP scores on fourth-grade math. We don't have but 50 states.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.