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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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"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
"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
"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."

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Mose Allison
"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."

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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 do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."

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Mose Allison
"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

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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
"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."

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Mose Allison
"I'm playin' the music I like."

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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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Aberjhani

"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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Aberjhani

"I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry."

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Aberjhani

"Leo. Jason said, you're wierd. Yeah, you tell me that a lot. Leo grinned. But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes. Come on!"

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Aberjhani

"I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me."

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Aberjhani

"I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes."

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Aberjhani

"My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe."

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Aberjhani

"I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this."

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Aberjhani

"You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic."

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Aberjhani

"In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around."

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Aberjhani

"I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show."

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