Quotes from Sun Ra

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

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

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

if you are not a myth whose reality are you? If you are not a reality whose myth are you?

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

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.

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.

Those who will not dance will have to be shot

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

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

I pull the veil aside and step through its portals dreams rush to meet me.

wings greater than wings wings greater than walls

Every desire is an end and every end is a desire then the end of the world is a desire of the world what type of end do you desire?

It ain't necessarily so that it ain't necessarily so.

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

I have a potent degree of love that is so unwise in one world that it is wisdom in another.

I'm one that will cause people to scratch their heads in wonderment in search of their hollow hearts and look in their souls and wonder, Where did he come from? What is he?

History is His story. You haven't heard my story.

Seek not equality with either white or any other nation open your eyes and see behind their pretended pleasure and power is only impotence and despair.

I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you to understand if you can and for you to feel, regardless.

Sink to the ground holding death's hand oh comrade if you are the father of great repose, if you are all you seem and nothing more, I'm glad that you are here.

Those who are thirsty for wisdom Will ever move toward the source of the wisdom That quenches their thirst.

yet underneath it all it's not in conscience another self hidden not in shame because sarcastically been on rushing from its hiding place and taken under its known this tale this proud, this boastful braggart of circumstance and dream that something calls life

Sun Ra is not a person, it's a business name, it's a certificate which was gotten in New York City; they didn't notice that I didn't have down there what my business was. They stamped it, notarized it, and they filed it. So therefore, it's a business name, and my business is changing the planet.