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.

-Mose Allison

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I Just Try To

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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All The Classic Jazz Players All Sang And A Lot Of 'em Sang Blues.

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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.

Humorous

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I Told [my Daughter Amy] At An Early Age That She Had A Good Ear. But I Didn't Influence Her Music Much. She's Pretty Much Developed Her Style On Her Own, And She's A Talented Songwriter.

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Age

I Sang And Wrote Songs When I Was 12 Years Old.

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I Do Some Concerts. At The Moment, I'm Being Helped A Lot By A Gig I Play In London, Which Is Pizza Express.

Play

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London

A Young Man Ain't Nothin' In The World These Days

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World

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I'm Playin' The Music I Like.

I Been Getting Good Crowds. It Only Took 50 Years.

Years

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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.

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I Remember The First Check I Got From The Who's Recording [of "young Man Blues"]. I'd Been Getting Checks For $10 And $15 And So Forth, And This One Was For A Much Larger Amount Than That. I Thought It Was A Mistake.

Mistake

Men

Firsts

I Start Out With Words, With The Idea, The Line. Then After I Get A Line Or Two, I Try To Find What Melodic Line Those Lines Would Be Suited To. As Soon As I Find The Form I Can Finish The Song In My Head.

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It Was The British Rockers That Saved Me. They Brought Me To A Different Generation Altogether [in The 60th]. The Who And The Yardbirds And Georgie Fame And Van Morrison And All Those People. The Only Person Who Ever Did My Songs In [ U.s] Country Was Bonnie Raitt.

Country

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[the Producer Told Me:] "we Can Try One More Record, And We'll See How That One Does." Those Records Never Did Anything. My Music Never Got Mentioned. My Color Got Mentioned.

Color

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I Just Have A Lot Off Different Influences.

Different

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Everybody Cryin' Mercy / When They Don't Know The Meaning Of The Word.

Oasis

Superhero

Mercy

I Haven't Stopped And I Don't Plan On Stoppin' Any Time Soon.

Plans

Havens

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.

Swings

Numbers

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I Started Going To A Piano Teacher At 5 Years Old, But Pretty Soon I Started Picking Things Out On My Own And Stopped Taking Music Lessons. I Never Could Read Music Very Well, But I've Still Been Doing It.

Teacher

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I Have No Idea What I'm Doin'. I've Never Seen Me.

Ideas

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The Jazz Boom Was Goin' On Then So There Was A Lot Happenin' In New York At That Time.

New York

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I Never Bothered About Keeping Track.every Now And Then Someone Records One Of My Songs, And I Get Credit For It.

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Years

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Ever Since The World Ended, I Don't Go Out As Much

World

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Bothered

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Party

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I'm Improvising All The Time. Everything I Do Is Improvised. On The Piano, At Least.

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Improvising

I Don't Remember Any Impression [from Blues].the Blues Was Just Everywhere In The Mississippi Delta. It Was Mostly Black Sharecroppers Living There, And There Was A Lot Of Blues Around. Sometimes The Guys Would Sing The Blues In The Fields, Working.

Mississippi Delta

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I Don't Sit Down To Write A Song; They Just Come To Me From Something That Somebody Says, Or Something In The News. The Punchline Comes To Me, And I Go Over It In My Head And Get The Song Form. I Hadn't Been Doing That A Lot.

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The Things That Really Matter Don't Mix With Idle Chatter.

Silence

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So I'm In My 51st Year Of Playin' Mostly Nightclubs. I Do Some Concerts.

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I Have Lots Of Cds That Came Out At One Time Or Another, And According To The Statements I've Gotten, No One's Buying Them.i Figured There's No Need Making A New Cd. There Are Plenty Of Mine Out There, And None Of Them Are Selling.

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And Lennie Tristano I Like A Lot, I Still Like Him.

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I'm Not Inspired By Songwriting At All; That Took Place Years Ago. I'm Pretty Well Established, As Far As My Influences Go. I Don't Listen To Music Anymore. It All Sounds The Same To Me.

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I Don't Care What Anyone Does, As Long As They Go Through The Copyright Office.

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I Didn't Feel Anything [frustraiting]. I Just Kept Working 110 Or 120 Nights A Year.

Night

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You Always Want To Write The Perfect Song. But No One Will Ever Write The Perfect Song, I Guess. I Would Just Like To Write On That Has All The Elements Of What I'm Tring To Do. And I'm Working On It. I'm Always Working On It.

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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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I Never Sit Down And Write. I Just Sorta Let Things Form In My Brain.

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I Finally Decided If I Was Going To Make A Living, I Was Gonna Have To Come To New York.

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My Main Influences Have Always Been The Classic Jazz Players Who Sang, Like Louis Armstrong And Nat King Cole And Jack Teagarden.

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