Mose Allison Quotes - Page 2

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

  Mose Allison

  Play, Gigs, London

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• 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.

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• A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days

  Mose Allison

  Men, World, These Days

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.

  Mose Allison

  Music, Hard Work, Ideas

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

  Mose Allison

  Couple, People, Tunes

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

  Mose Allison

  Money, New York, Decided

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• I just have a lot off different influences.

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  Different, Influence

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• I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

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  Song, Years

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• There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

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  Humorous, Views, Tunes

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

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  Song, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Years, Ideas, Tunes

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• 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.

  Mose Allison

  Night, Years, Able

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• My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

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  Kings, Player, Jazz

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

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  Years, Concerts, Nightclubs

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

  Mose Allison

  Bothered

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• [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.

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• I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line those lines would be suited to. As soon as I find the form I can finish the song in my head.

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  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• 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.

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• 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.

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