It’s as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Getting there is a little harder. — Mose Allison
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like louis armstrong and — Mose Allison
I’ve been able to do pretty well. I don’t work as many consecutive nights as I used to — Mose Allison
The jazz boom was going on then so there was a lot happening in new york at that time. — Mose Allison
Pizza express has been a real Godsend for me. I’ve been working there for several years, six weeks a year. — Mose Allison
There’s a lot of terrible things going on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end. — Mose Allison
Then I started listening a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doing. — Mose Allison
As far as I’m concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention — Mose Allison
At this point, I don’t listen to other people too much. I’m not really that affected by anyone. — Mose Allison
I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to new york. — Mose Allison
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
I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people’s tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes — Mose Allison
I can’t judge my own stuff. That’s for others. But those are the three things that I admire. — Mose Allison
But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good. — Mose Allison
I’m playing music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. — Mose Allison
I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. — Mose Allison