Sun Ra Quotes

#1. My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop.

Tim Gane

#2. My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

Penn Jillette

#3. In Detroit, it was an average night to go and hear the Stooges, Parliament-Funkadelic and the MC5 on the same show. We were all into the 'Free Jazz' movement, the musics of Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra; and experimenting with guitar sounds, and trying different beats, and pushing the rhythm farther...

Wayne Kramer

#4. 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

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

Sun Ra

#6. 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

#7. Those who will not dance will have to be shot

Sun Ra

#8. If you are not a myth whose reality are you? If you are not a reality whose myth are you?

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

#11. 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

#12. 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.

Sun Ra

#13. Let Ra grant to me a view of the Disk (the Sun), and a sight of Ah (the Moon) unfailingly each day. Let my Ba-soul come forth to walk about hither and thither and whithersoever it pleaseth.

Raymond O. Faulkner

#14. 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

#15. A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

Sun Ra

#16. Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

Sun Ra

#17. Zia's senile grandfather? Nope. That was Ra, god of the sun, first divine pharaoh of Egypt and archenemy of Apophis. Last spring we'd gone on a quest to find him and revive him from his twilight sleep, trusting he would rise in all his glory and fight the Chaos snake for us.

Rick Riordan

#18. Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

Rick Riordan

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

#21. Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

#24. Crispin Hershey!" Lady Suze holds up both hands as if I'm the sun god Ra. "Your event was totes amazeballs! As they say.

David Mitchell

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

Sun Ra

#26. 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

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

#30. 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

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

#33. Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

#41. The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity.

Ashwin Sanghi

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

#45. The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. How do we beat her? I asked.
You pretty much don't, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sun's wrath. Back in the day when Ra was active, she would have been much more impressive, but still.She's unstoppable. A born killer. A slaying machine
"Okay, I get it!" I yelled.

Rick Riordan

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

Sun Ra

#52. 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

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

#56. 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

#57. Music is a language, a universal language.

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

#59. 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

#60. I use music as a medium to talk to people.

Sun Ra

#61. Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh ... And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.

Dan Brown

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

Sun Ra

#63. 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.

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra

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

Sun Ra