Quotes by Sun Ra

“First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy bec...”

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

“Music is a language, you see, a universal language.”

“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 ...”

“I use music as a medium to talk to people.”

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

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

“We hold this myth to be potentialNot self-evident but equationalAnother DimensionOf another kind of Living Life”

“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.”

“In some far off place Many light years in space I’ll wait for you. Where human feet have never trod, Where human eyes have never seen. I'll build a world of abstract dreams And wait for you.”

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

“I probably do what I'm controlled to do. Something … made all this: some Impossibility without a name. That's what the world is controlled by: an Impossibility. It's controlled by someone they call...”

“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.”

“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 dimens...”

“People have a lot more of the unknown than the known in their minds. The unknown is great; it's like the darkness. Nobody made that. It just happens. Light and all that — someone made that; it's wr...”

“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 m...”

“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 A...”

“I see them as they are to is And not the seeming isness of the was.”

“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 ...”

“Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.”