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
country song people
The British rockers saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie Fame and Van Morrison and all those people. The only person who ever did my songs in [ U.S] country was Bonnie Raitt.
song track records
I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.
song people care
I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.
song writing news
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.
song writing perfect
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.
song writing thinking
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.
song writing ideas
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.
song years
I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.
song thinking ideas
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
american-musician days people shows turned wish
These people that think I'm cynical, I wish they'd come to see my shows these days because I've turned into a comedian, practically.
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.
affected american-musician people
At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.
american-musician liked louis
Louis Jordan, I always liked him as well.
american-musician
I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.