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I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
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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.
Sun Ra
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
Sun Ra
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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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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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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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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
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A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
Sun Ra
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Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.
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With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
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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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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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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 can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
Sun Ra
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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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Music is a language, a universal language.
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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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I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
Sun Ra