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Top 30 Mose Allison Quotes (2025 Update)

Mose Allison Quote: “The things that really matter don’t mix with idle chatter.”

1. “The things that really matter don’t mix with idle chatter.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “I have no idea what I’m doin’. I’ve never seen me.”

2. “I have no idea what I’m doin’. I’ve never seen me.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “As far as I’m concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.”

3. “As far as I’m concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “Ever since the world ended, I don’t go out as much.”

4. “Ever since the world ended, I don’t go out as much.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is – I don’t whether it’s true or not – that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.”

5. “My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is – I don’t whether it’s true or not – that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.”

6. “I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Mose Allison Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.”

9. “I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Mose Allison Quote: “I don’t care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.”

12. “I don’t care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.”

14. “I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “I’m improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.”

15. “I’m improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Mose Allison Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.”

18. “My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “I just have a lot off different influences.”

20. “I just have a lot off different influences.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.”

21. “I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Mose Allison Quote: “I do some concerts. At the moment, I’m being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.”

23. “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

Mose Allison Quote: “And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.”

24. “And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of ’em sang blues.”

25. “All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of ’em sang blues.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.”

26. “I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.”

27. “I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “I’m always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.”

28. “I’m always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison 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.”

29. “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

Mose Allison Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “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.”

31. “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.”

— Mose Allison

Mose Allison Quote: “I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.”

32. “I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.”

— Mose Allison

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