Sun Ra Quotes

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• Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
• The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.
• The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
• I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.
• Music is a language, a universal language.
• A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
• At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
• I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
• I use music as a medium to talk to people.
• I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
• Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
• 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…
• Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
• And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.
• 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…
• Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
• The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.
• Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.
• Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
• People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

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