Mose Allison Quotes

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

Needless to say, anybody who can stumble through a C-major scale knows that Art Tatum always gave his audiences 10 times their money's worth.

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

My father was incredible on trumpet and played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

I love Monk's song, 'Just a Gigolo.' It's probably a minor song for him, but whenever I hear a recording of him playing it, I'm mesmerized because Monk clearly loved pop music. He took it very seriously and made an amazing thing out of it.

I listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and they work for me.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

I listen to everything. My I-Pod's really diverse-from guitar instrumentals to Rascal Flatts to Usher.

Jazz is the music of the body.

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.

Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!

Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

Jazz music is the power of now.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!