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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
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Mose Allison
Age: 89 †
Born: 1927
Born: November 11
Died: 2016
Died: November 15
Jazz Musician
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Mississippi
Mose John Allison
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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.
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I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.
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The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
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
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
Mose Allison
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
Mose Allison
I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.
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I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.
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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.
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I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.
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I just have a lot off different influences.
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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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The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.
Mose Allison
Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much
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
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
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
The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.
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 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.
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