Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.

A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.

People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.