Mose Allison Quotes

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

  Mose Allison

  Player, Ems, Jazz

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• Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much

  Mose Allison

  Mundo

  "Mose Allison obituary" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2016.

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• The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.

  Mose Allison

  Silence, Idle Chatter, Matter

  "Celebrated Jazz Musician Mose Allison Dies At 89". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 15, 2016.

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• Todo el mundo llorando misericordia / Cuando no saben el significado de la palabra.

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  Oasis, Superhero, Mercy

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• I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

  Mose Allison

  Ideas, No Idea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Mose Allison

  Years, Crowds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mose Allison

  Writing, Brain, Down And

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• I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.

  Mose Allison

  Song, Writing, News

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. February 04, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Swings, Numbers, People

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• The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

  Mose Allison

  New York, Jazz

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• I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

  Mose Allison

  Piano, Improvising

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.

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• I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

  Mose Allison

  Mississippi Delta, Guy, Black

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 02, 2010.

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• I'm playin' the music I like.

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• 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.

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  Years, Type, Certain

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• I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.

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  Song, People, Doe

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.

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

  Mose Allison

  Plans, Havens

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• I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.

  Mose Allison

  Daughter, Style, Age

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Night, Play

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• Para mí, lo esencial del jazz es la improvisación melódica, la invención melódica, el swing y la personalidad instrumental.

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  Swings, Personality, Essentials

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• It was the British rockers that saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie Fame and Van Morrison and all those people. The only person who ever did my songs in [ U.S] country was Bonnie Raitt.

  Mose Allison

  Country, Song, People

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 02, 2010.

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• My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

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  Dad, Player, Self

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. February 04, 2010.

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• If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see manifestations of it at different times and different places, then I feel it's worth making a song out of.

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  Canción, Escritura, Pensamiento

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

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  Lennie, Stills

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• You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.

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  Canción, Escritura, Perfecta

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• Hago algunos conciertos. De momento, me ayuda mucho un concierto que hago en Londres, que es Pizza Express.

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  Play, Gigs, London

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