Creativity Quote by Mose Allison

Mose Allison is talking about the cruel math of aging without begging for pity or performing heroism. The line swings the way his music swings: dry, slightly amused, and built on a rhythmic contradiction. “It’s as much fun as it ever was” lands like a reassuring chorus, the kind of thing you tell yourself to keep the gig - or the night out, or the creative life - from turning into a eulogy. Then he snaps the turn: “once I get there.” The fun isn’t gone; access to it is. The obstacle isn’t joy, it’s logistics.

That’s the sly subtext: pleasure remains available, but it now comes with a cover charge paid in stamina. “Gettin’ there” is literal (travel, load-ins, late sets) and existential (finding the energy to be social, to be curious, to be on). He doesn’t romanticize the struggle; he shrugs at it. The casual “you know” recruits the listener as a co-conspirator, as if everyone has already felt time adding friction to things that used to be effortless.

In a career spent threading jazz sophistication through blues plainspokenness, Allison specialized in making heavy truths feel light enough to hum. This line works the same way. It’s not a complaint, it’s a calibration: the world still has its pleasures, but the body has started negotiating the terms. The joke is that the destination hasn’t changed - only the trip has, and that’s where life quietly starts to charge interest.