Mose Allison Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.”

“There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.”

“Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.”

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

“And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.”