Top 32 Quotes by Mose Allison

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

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.

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

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

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

I just have a lot off different influences.

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

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.