Sun Ra famous quotes

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

#Trying #Impossible

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
-- Sun Ra

#Music #Country #People

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
-- Sun Ra

#Art #Discipline #Design

I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.
-- Sun Ra

#Names #Mystery #Call Me

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
-- Sun Ra

#Thinking #Mystery

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.
-- Sun Ra

#Light #Shadow #Tomorrow

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

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

#Musician #Faults #Planets

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.
-- Sun Ra

#Music #Thinking #World

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

Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.
-- Sun Ra

#Spiritual #Music Is #Materials

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
-- Sun Ra

#Bridges #People #Understanding

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

#Firsts

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
-- Sun Ra

#World #Danger #Planets

Music is a language, a universal language.
-- Sun Ra

#Language #Music Is #Universal Language

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.
-- Sun Ra

#Discipline #Division #Tradition

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures...
-- Sun Ra

#Emotion #Paint

I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
-- Sun Ra

#Views #People #Point Of View

I use music as a medium to talk to people.
-- Sun Ra

#People #Use #Mediums

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
-- Sun Ra

#Philosopher #Politician #Categories

Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
-- Sun Ra

#America #Europe #People

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

#Children #Men #World

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

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

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

Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
-- Sun Ra

#Planes #Prophetic #Symbols

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
-- Sun Ra

#Freedom Of Speech #Speech

Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.
-- Sun Ra

#Light #People #Earth

Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
-- Sun Ra

#Heaven #Where You Are #Okay

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

#Mad #World

Those who will not dance will have to be shot
-- Sun Ra

#Shots

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
-- Sun Ra

#Absence

Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.
-- Sun Ra

#Space #Pits #Lows

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.
-- Sun Ra

#Brother #Space #My Brother

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 #Earth #Dimensions

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.
-- Sun Ra

#Space #Chicago #Outer Space

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
-- Sun Ra

#Writing #Structure #Money And Power

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

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
-- Sun Ra

#Dark #Black #Cosmos

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

#Brother #Men #Jail

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
-- Sun Ra

#Play #Appreciate #Want

I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.
-- Sun Ra

#People #Want #Jazz

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
-- Sun Ra

#Music #Jazz #Type

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

#Music #Jazz #Jazz Music

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 #Earth #Sound

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

It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
-- Sun Ra

#Notion

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

#Bars #Want #Able

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
-- Sun Ra

#Today #Structure #Music Is