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.

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.

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.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!