Sun Ra Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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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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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 am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
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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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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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I use music as a medium to talk to people.
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It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
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Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
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Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.
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Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
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With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
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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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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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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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A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
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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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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.