Jim Coleman Quotes
"I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Music, Truth, Film)
"I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward."
- Jim Coleman
"I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Life, Want)
"I'm from all over the Northeast."
- Jim Coleman
"I'm just like you, only I'm different because I'm me."
- Jim Coleman
"I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Life)
"In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Right, Sound)
"So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: World)
"Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: First, Jazz, Years)
"Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Buddhist)
"When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Music, Thought)
"I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: State)
"Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Years)
"I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Time, Film, School)
"With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Music, Brothers, Help)
"And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Movies, Horror)
"Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Opinion)
"I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Now, Satan, School)
"And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Life, Idea, Pretty, Want)
"And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts."
- Jim Coleman
"As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Jazz)
"But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies."
- Jim Coleman
"But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Self)
"But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Collaboration)
"First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: First, Pretty, Trying)
"For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Music, Gain, Pretty, Unity)
"I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Being, Police, School, Trouble, Trying)
"But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Alcohol, College, Friends, Years)
"And I definitely have an affinity with the piano."
- Jim Coleman