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Mose Allison

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

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

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"The sacred-time determines the due events."

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"Time is life. Time for birth, time for death."

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"Because of the past, so many people are living in the past! No one is free from the past, but we are free to choose to move from the past into the present or stay in the past, though we live in the present!"

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Mose Allison
"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."
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"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
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"At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone."
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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
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"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."
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"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."
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"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."
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"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."
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Mose Allison
"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
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Mose Allison
"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."
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