Sun Ra Quotes

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.

I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for this planet is because the Master-Creator of the Universe is making me do it. I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.

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.

If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.

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.

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.

Those who will not dance will have to be shot

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.

It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

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.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer

At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.