#lay

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. ↗

— Mose Allison

#armstrong #been #classic #cole #influences

Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people. ↗

— Mose Allison

#been #club #every #every night #express

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#acoustic guitar #did #first #good #good time

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#ever #i #make #money #music

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. ↗

— Marc Almond

#acoustic #acoustic guitar #always #classic #comes

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#audience #brass #cigarettes #connection #contact

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#designed #exercises #function #i #i do

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#beneficial #i #i think #interesting #live

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years. ↗

— Summer Altice

#i #life #my life #part #played

I would play football, because I love it. ↗

— Summer Altice

#football #i #i love #love #play