Robert Ashley famous quotes

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

#Theatre #Opera #Would Be

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

#Crosses #Streets #Rely

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

#Rocks #Long #Three

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

#America #Mysterious

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

#Drama #Stupid #Block

It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history.

The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.