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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• Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Dream, Eye

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Sun Ra

  People, Needs, Earth

  Press release by A&M Records, 1989.

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

  Sun Ra

  Mad, World, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Those who will not dance will have to be shot

  Sun Ra

  Shots

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

  Sun Ra

  Notion

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Sun Ra

  Moving, Sound, Earth

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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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• 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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• 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 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.

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  Play, Frustrated, Unhappy

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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

  Sun Ra

  Prayer, Ignorance, Feelings

  Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, BoD – Books on Demand

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