Latest Mose Allison Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.

  Mose Allison

  Long, Office, Doe

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

• I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

  Mose Allison

  Song, Track, Credit

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

• 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.

  Mose Allison

  Song, People, Doe

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

• I remember the first check I got from The Who's recording [of "Young Man Blues"]. I'd been getting checks for $10 and $15 and so forth, and this one was for a much larger amount than that. I thought it was a mistake.

  Mose Allison

  Mistake, Men, Firsts

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

• 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.

• I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.

  Mose Allison

  Army, Player, Engineering

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

• [The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

  Mose Allison

  Color, Trying, Doe

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

• I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.

  Mose Allison

  Party, Kids, Black

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

• 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.

• I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.

  Mose Allison

  Teacher, Years, Piano

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

• 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.

• 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.

  Mose Allison

  Dad, Player, Self

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

• 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.

• 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.

• I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.

  Mose Allison

  Years, Sound, Inspired

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

• I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.

  Mose Allison

  Night, Years, Feels

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

• I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.

  Mose Allison

  Cds, Needs, Buying

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