Sun Ra Quotes
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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.
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I use music as a medium to talk to people.
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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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I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.
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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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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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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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All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
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I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
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It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
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In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.
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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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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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Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
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Music is a language, a universal language.
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A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
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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.