Robert Ashley quotes

Robert Ashley quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.”
-- Robert Ashley

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“Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.”
-- Robert Ashley

Source : Robert Ashley's liner notes to "Automatic Writing", August 18, 1996.

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“If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.”
-- Robert Ashley

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“I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.”
-- Robert Ashley

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“Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.”
-- Robert Ashley

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