Mose Allison
Mose Allison
Mose John Allison, Jr.is an American jazz blues pianist, singer and songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth11 November 1927
CountryUnited States of America
american-musician terrible
There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.
american-musician gonna happen jazz knows nobody predict
I'm pretty much self-centered in that way. I don't try to predict what's gonna happen to jazz or anything like that. Nobody knows what jazz.
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It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.
american-musician liked louis
Louis Jordan, I always liked him as well.
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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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But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.
american-musician wears
Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.
oasis superhero mercy
Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.
dad player piano
My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.
years crowds
I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.
humorous views tunes
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.
cds needs buying
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.
swings personality jazz-improvisation
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
years ideas want
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.