Jim Coleman Quotes

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

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

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

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

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#5. If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

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#9. Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

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

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#11. 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.

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

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#13. And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I'm just like you, only I'm different because I'm me.

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#18. 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.

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#19. And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

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#20. I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

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

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#22. I'm from all over the Northeast.

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#23. 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.

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#24. I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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#27. And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.

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

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#29. 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.

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

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