Sun Ra Quotes

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

In some far off place, many light years in space, I'll wait for you. Where human feet have never trod, where human eyes have never seen. I'll build a world of abstract dreams and wait for you.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

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

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

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.

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

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.

It ain't necessarily so that it ain't necessarily so.

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

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.

History is His story. You haven't heard my story.

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

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

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

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

I pull the veil aside
and step through its portals
dreams rush to meet me.

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

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures ...

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

First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy because of it. They need to smile and realize how ridiculous everything is. A race without a sense of humor is in bad shape. A race needs clowns. In earlier days people knew that. Kings always had a court jester around. In that way he was always reminded how ridiculous things are. I believe that nations too should have jesters, in the congress, near the president, everywhere ... You could call me the jester of the Creator. The whole world, all the disease and misery, it's all ridiculous.

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

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

Sink to the ground holding death's hand
oh comrade
if you are the father of great repose,
if you are all you seem and nothing more,
I'm glad that you are here.

We hold this myth to be potential
Not self-evident but equational
Another Dimension
Of another kind of Living Life

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

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

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

The trouble with the people on this planet is they refuse to think they refuse to believe anything except what they know

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

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

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

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.

wings greater than wings
wings greater than walls

The earth cannot move without 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

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

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.

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.

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

Every desire
is an end

and every end
is a desire

then
the end of the world
is a desire of the world

what type of end do you desire?