81 Quotes by Mose Allison

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

I just have a lot off different influences.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

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

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

[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.