Quotes by Jim Coleman

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For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.

Jim Coleman

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

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.

Jim Coleman

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

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

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

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

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

But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.

Jim Coleman

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

Jim Coleman

Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.

Jim Coleman

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

Jim Coleman

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

Jim Coleman

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

Jim Coleman

So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.

Jim Coleman

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

I'm from all over the Northeast.

Jim Coleman

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

Jim Coleman

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

Jim Coleman

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