Quotes from Sun Ra

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

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

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.

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

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

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

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

Music is a language, a universal language.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

It's after the end of the world. Don't you know that yet?

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.

I'm not real, I'm just like you. You don't exist in this society. If you did your people wouldn't be seeking equal rights. You're not real, if you were you'd have some status among the nations of the world. So we are both myths. I do not come to you as a reality, I come to you as the myth because that is what black people are: myths. I came from a dream that the black man dreamed long ago. I'm actually a presence sent to you by your ancestors.