I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. Mose Allison Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I can’t judge my own stuff. That’s for others. But those are the three things that I admire. Mose Allison Read Quote
But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good. Mose Allison Read Quote
At this point, I don’t listen to other people too much. I’m not really that affected by anyone. Mose Allison Read Quote
As far as I’m concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. Mose Allison Read Quote
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. Mose Allison Read Quote
