At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone. Mose Allison More Quotes by Mose Allison More Quotes From Mose Allison All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. Mose Allison emsjazzplayer Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word. Mose Allison oasissuperheromercy The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter. Mose Allison idle-chattersilencematter I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it. Mose Allison pianoteacheryears I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me. Mose Allison no-ideaideas 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 typecertainyears Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much Mose Allison world I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling. Mose Allison cdsbuyingneeds 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 swingsnumberspeople I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. Mose Allison down-andbrainwriting I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot. Mose Allison newswritingsong I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it. Mose Allison credittracksong I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs. Mose Allison doesongpeople You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it. Mose Allison perfectwritingsong I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon. Mose Allison planshavens I remember the first check I got from The Who's recording [of "Young Man Blues"]. I'd been getting checks for $10 and $15 and so forth, and this one was for a much larger amount than that. I thought it was a mistake. Mose Allison mistakemenfirsts I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years. Mose Allison crowdsyears I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line those lines would be suited to. As soon as I find the form I can finish the song in my head. Mose Allison writingsongideas If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see manifestations of it at different times and different places, then I feel it's worth making a song out of. Mose Allison writingsongthinking It was the British rockers that saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie Fame and Van Morrison and all those people. The only person who ever did my songs in [ U.S] country was Bonnie Raitt. Mose Allison songcountrypeople
