Robert Ashley , composer primarily of opera
- "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, Automatic Writing (1996), referring to both automatic writing and the piece Automatic Writing.
