James St. James Quotes

Everything starts from a dot.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

To begin, at the beginning.

Music is organized sound.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Music is math; music is spiritual.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.

Nothing would have been accomplished if I didn't start in Newfoundland.

Music is about depth. Music is about harmony. Music is about notes and tones.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

The beginning is half of the whole.

I love melody more than any other part of music.

'Mr. Majnu' is just my way of saying that I am trying to start off from the basics.

It takes a long time for things to get off the ground.

Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers.

The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.

One must have first of all a solid foundation.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

Rivers neede a spring.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.