Top 5 Robert Ashley Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I don't think there's any heroism anymore. The heroism has to be created out of the medium itself. Going back to the idea of television, all the current heros are sports heros because the medium creates the heros. There's nothing essentially heroic about being a good pitcher.
Robert Ashley
#3. If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.
Robert Ashley
#4. I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.
Robert Ashley
#5. 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
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