Mose Allison Quotes & Sayings

“Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.”

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

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

“It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.”

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

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

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

“I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.”

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

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