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Jazz Quote by Sun Ra

“What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that…” quote by Sun Ra — Download Open image

“What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.”

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

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

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

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“wings greater than wings wings greater than walls”

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“I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you to understand…

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

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

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I use music as a medium to talk to people.

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

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

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