Showing posts with label Sun Ra Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sun Ra Quotes. Show all posts
Sun Ra Quotes
"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
Sun Ra Quotes
"The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code." - Sun Ra
Sun Ra Quotes
"So rise lightly from the earth and try your wings. Try them now while the darkness is invisible." - Sun Ra
Sun Ra Quotes
"The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music." - Sun Ra
Sun Ra Quotes
"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
Sun Ra Quotes
"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth." - Sun Ra
Sun Ra Quotes
"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." - Sun Ra
Sun Ra Quotes
"People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country." - Sun Ra
Sun Ra Quotes
"Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me." - Sun Ra
Sun Ra Quotes
"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." - Sun Ra
Sun Ra Quotes
"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos." - Sun Ra
Sun Ra Quotes
"I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category." - Sun Ra
Sun Ra Quotes
"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
Sun Ra Quotes
"Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power." - Sun Ra
