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I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.
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Mose Allison
Age: 89 †
Born: 1927
Born: November 11
Died: 2016
Died: November 15
Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Tippo
Mississippi
Mose John Allison
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I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.
Mose Allison
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
Mose Allison
I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.
Mose Allison
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
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
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
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
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
Mose Allison
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
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
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
I just have a lot off different influences.
Mose Allison
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
Mose Allison
The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
Mose Allison
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
Mose Allison
Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much
Mose Allison
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
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.
Mose Allison
[The producer told me:] We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does. Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.
Mose Allison
I'm not inspired by songwriting at all that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.
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