Jerry Coleman's Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork.

Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that gives us a sense of comfort, a false one. Many of us thought - needed to feel - the whole business was 'settled.' But it's not, never has been. Laws have only taken us so far.

A man is entitled to a few secrets.

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

At the very least, we want everything to go on hold for a while because there is this feeling that we're heading down a path in a way that we never, ever intended when we were 18 and dreaming of what life would be like.

I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama... I'm looking to be subtle, but being a wordsmith does not interest me - I want to communicate.

In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion, should always be there.

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.