Mose Allison Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.”

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

“I just have a lot off different influences.”

“I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.”

“I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.”

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

“I'm playin' the music I like.”

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

“Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.”

“I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.”