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" I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. "
Mose Allison
Things
Sit
Never
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" 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
" 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. "
Mose Allison
Try
Started
See
" There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end. "
Mose Allison
In The End
Fun
End
" As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. "
Mose Allison
Personality
Far
Swing
" 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. "
Mose Allison
Want
Turn
Radio
" The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time. "
Mose Allison
New York
Then
Time
" I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. "
Mose Allison
Sang
Years
Wrote
" At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone. "
Mose Allison
Listen
Point
Too Much
" I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon. "
Mose Allison
Plan
Any
Soon
" I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire. "
Mose Allison
Stuff
Judge
Own
" 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. "
Mose Allison
View
Somewhere
Point Of View
" So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts. "
Mose Allison
Concerts
Mostly
Nightclubs
" I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express. "
Mose Allison
Play
Pizza
Moment
" I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years. "
Mose Allison
Been
Years
Took
" I'm playin' the music I like. "
Mose Allison
Like
Music
" Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more. "
Mose Allison
Days
Out
Problems
" 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. "
Mose Allison
Over
Work
Working
" I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so. "
Mose Allison
Years
See
Person
" I just have a lot off different influences. "
Mose Allison
Just
Different
Influences
" 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
" The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me. "
Mose Allison
Me
Thing
Singin
" 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. "
Mose Allison
Obscure
People
Standards
" 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. "
Mose Allison
Swing
Through
Know
" It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder. "
Mose Allison
Little
You
Fun
" All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. "
Mose Allison
Jazz
Classic
Sang
" 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
" But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good. "
Mose Allison
Got
Pretty
Show
" I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me. "
Mose Allison
Seen
Doin
Me
" I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. "
Mose Allison
New York
Finally
Going
" I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. "
Mose Allison
Turn
Think
Away