Jim Coleman Quotes

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

I feel we have a music industry within the film industry.

I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

I think 'Easy Rider' might have been the first time that someone made a film using found music instead of an orchestral score. No one had really used found music in a movie before, except to play on radios or when someone was singing in a scene.

I see a parallel industry for independent music blooming alongside film music.

I have composed music for many city-based movies.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.