Mose Allison Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Mose Allison
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“All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.”
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“And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.”
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“As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.”
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“At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.”
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“But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.”
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“I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.”
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“I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.”
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