Top 32 Quotes by Mose Allison

It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

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

Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

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'm playin' the music I like.

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

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.