Sun Ra Quotes
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Music is a language, a universal language.
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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
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Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.
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Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality.
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I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
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The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music.
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The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.
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What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
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I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.
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Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.
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Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
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The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.
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I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
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If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes
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I use music as a medium to talk to people.
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A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
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I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.
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Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
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Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.
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I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power.
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I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.
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And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.
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With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
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The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.
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The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.
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But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.
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Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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