Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

We have a warehouse of music and a warehouse of talent in this band that we just want to give and keep giving to our Austin community and beyond.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

He is expert in classical music. He knew the composers and knew their lives. He read their biographies. He knew the subtly of their music. And he knew about modern music and all the modern composers.