Top 32 Quotes by Mose Allison

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

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

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.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

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.

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

And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.

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

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.