Sun Ra
Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.Collection: Society
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.Collection: Truth
Music is a language, you see, a universal language.Collection: Music
And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.Collection: Space
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.Collection: History
I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
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.
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.
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
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.
I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
I use music as a medium to talk to people.
People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.
The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.Collection: African American
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.Collection: Real
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.Collection: Music
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.Collection: People
Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.Collection: Heaven
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.Collection: Air
If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takesCollection: Mad
The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.Collection: Musician
The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.Collection: Light
Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Space
Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.Collection: Spiritual
Those who will not dance will have to be shotCollection: Shots
I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Destiny
Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.Collection: Freedom Of Speech
In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Psychics
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.Collection: Moving
The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.Collection: Music
At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became somethingCollection: Firsts
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 prayerCollection: Prayer
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.Collection: Play
I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.Collection: Discipline
Music is a language, a universal language.Collection: Language
Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.Collection: Planes
I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.Collection: Names
Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.Collection: Space
With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.Collection: Emotion
Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.Collection: Bridges