Sun Ra Quotes
"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
(Related: Brother, Killing, Man, Tragedy)
"Music is a language, you see, a universal language."
- Sun Ra
(Related: Music, Language)
"Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me."
- Sun Ra
(Related: People, America, Europe)
"People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country."
- Sun Ra
(Related: People, 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."
- Sun Ra
(Related: Man, Will, Woman, World)
"Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society."
- Sun Ra
(Related: Music, Society, Today)
"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."
- Sun Ra
(Related: History, Cosmos)
"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
(Related: Truth)
"I use music as a medium to talk to people."
- Sun Ra
(Related: Music, People, Talk)
"I see people as they really are from a pure point of view."
- Sun Ra
(Related: People)
"I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician."
- Sun Ra
"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
(Related: Music, American, Musicians, Want)
"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."
- Sun Ra
(Related: Chicago, Space)
"A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!"
- Sun Ra
(Related: Danger, World)
"A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people."
- Sun Ra
(Related: People, Country, Honor)
"Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power."
- Sun Ra
(Related: Money, Power)
"I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category."
- Sun Ra