Top 32 Quotes by Mose Allison

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

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

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

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

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.

I'm playin' the music I like.

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

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

I just have a lot off different influences.