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" As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. "
Mose Allison
Personality
Far
Swing
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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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" At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone. "
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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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" 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. "
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Somewhere
Point Of View
" I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me. "
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Working
" I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon. "
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Any
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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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People
Standards
" I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. "
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New York
Finally
Going
" 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. "
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Want
Turn
Radio
" I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. "
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Turn
Think
Away
" I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. "
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Sang
Years
Wrote
" I just have a lot off different influences. "
Mose Allison
Just
Different
Influences
" I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. "
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Things
Sit
Never
" I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me. "
Mose Allison
Seen
Doin
Me
" It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder. "
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Little
You
Fun
" The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me. "
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Me
Thing
Singin
" 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. "
Mose Allison
People
Nice
Night
" Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more. "
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Days
Out
Problems
" My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. "
Mose Allison
Been
Classic
Jazz
" 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. "
Mose Allison
Good
Play
Night
" 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. "
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Swing
Through
Know
" The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time. "
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New York
Then
Time
" 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. "
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Try
Started
See
" But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good. "
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Got
Pretty
Show
" And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him. "
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Him
Still
Lot
" All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. "
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Classic
Sang