Sun Ra Quotes
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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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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
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The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.
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Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.
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Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
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The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.
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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.
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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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I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.
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Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
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If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes
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Those who will not dance will have to be shot
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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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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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The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.
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Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
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I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
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I use music as a medium to talk to people.
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A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
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I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
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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.