Robert Ashley famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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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.
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If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.
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I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.
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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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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.
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The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.
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Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
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I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.
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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.
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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.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.
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