All Jim Coleman Quotes
I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.
Jim Coleman

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But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.
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I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
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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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Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.
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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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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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Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.
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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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Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.
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So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.
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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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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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In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.
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But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.
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