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Mose Allison

"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."

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Donna Grant

"Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds."

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Donna Grant

"Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile."

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Donna Grant

"We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller."

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Donna Grant

"The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening."

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Donna Grant

"I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that."

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Donna Grant

"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."

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Donna Grant

"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."

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Donna Grant

"I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds."

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Mose Allison
"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 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."

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Mose Allison
"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

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Mose Allison
"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."

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Mose Allison
"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."

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Mose Allison
"Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people."

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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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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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Mose Allison
"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."

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