Sun Ra Said

This musician was born in 1914 and died in 1994

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

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
Sun Ra

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

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

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

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

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

I use music as a medium to talk to people.
Sun Ra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
Sun Ra

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