Mose Allison Quotes

Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.

There’s a lot of terrible things goin’ on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

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.

Then I started listenin’ a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin’. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

The thing of playin’ and singin’ never bothered me.

The jazz boom was goin’ on then so there was a lot happenin’ in New York at that time.