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
night years feels
I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.
years sound inspired
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.
years concerts nightclubs
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
night years able
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.
years ideas want
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.
teacher years piano
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.
song years
I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.
years certain type
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.
years crowds
I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.
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 wears
Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.
american-musician
I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.
american-musician liked louis
Louis Jordan, I always liked him as well.
american-musician classical sort
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.