Robert Ashley Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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