Sun Ra Quotes

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• The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

  Sun Ra

  African American, Trying, 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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  Real, Intelligent, People

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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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  Music, Dream, Eye

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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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  People, Needs, Earth

  Press release by A&M Records, 1989.

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• Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.

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  Heaven, Where You Are, Okay

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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.

  Sun Ra

  Air, Honor, Noble

  Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.250, BoD – Books on Demand

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• If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

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  Mad, World, Ifs

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• The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

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  Musician, Faults, Planets

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• The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

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  Light, Shadow, Tomorrow

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• Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

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  Art, Discipline, Design

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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.

  Sun Ra

  Space, Magic, Democracy

  "Sun Ra: Stranger from Outer Space" by Mike Walsh, missioncreep.com.

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• The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already
  know my music.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Brother, Space

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• Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.

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  Spiritual, Music Is, Materials

  Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.250, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Those who will not dance will have to be shot

  Sun Ra

  Shots

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• It takes a motion to notion
  and it takes a notion to motion.

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  Notion

  Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.253, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.

  Sun Ra

  Thinking, Jazz, Mystery

  Interview with Jennifer Rycenga, November 2, 1988.

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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.

  Sun Ra

  Destiny, Prophet, Things To Do

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• Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

  Sun Ra

  Freedom Of Speech, Speech

  Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.250, BoD – Books on Demand

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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.

  Sun Ra

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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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.

  Sun Ra

  Psychics, Spirit, Born

  Interview with Jennifer Rycenga, November 2, 1988.

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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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  Moving, Sound, Earth

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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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  Music, Thinking, World

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• At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something

  Sun Ra

  Firsts

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• A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

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  Music, Country, People

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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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  Children, Men, World

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