Complex Rhythm Quotes

I guess I've become very accustomed to playing in the 7/4, which is something we've done quite a lot.

Sabbath is always some of the best music ever. And the reason is because it grooves. It's funky. It's heavy. It's got lots of great changes, twists, and turns.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

I'm a fan of odd meters. For example, I've decided to sing 'No Business Like Show Business,' but I'll be doing it in constantly changing 5/4, 7/4 and 11/4 time signatures. I've found a way to make that work.