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Robert Ashley (28 March 1930–3 March 2014) is a composer, primarily of opera.

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This fact, the surfacing of structure in an undeliberate action, is too big to take on here, but it was enough to convince me that the structuralists—the advocates of planning music before you hear or care what the plan gives you—were right: do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

liner notes to Automatic Writing (1996)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Ashley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.