A biography for Mose Allisonhasn’t been written yet.
“But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.”
“The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.”
“I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.”
“I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.”
“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.”
“I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.”
“The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.”
“I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.”
“As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.”
“I just have a lot off different influences.”
“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.”
“At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.”