Sun Ra Quotes - Page 2

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

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.

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.

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.

Music is a language, a universal language.

I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.

I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.

Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.

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.

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.

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.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.