Quotes About Sun Ra

In Detroit, it was an average night to go and hear the Stooges, Parliament-Funkadelic and the MC5 on the same show. We were all into the 'Free Jazz' movement, the musics of Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra; and experimenting with guitar sounds, and trying different beats, and pushing the rhythm farther...

Punk was such an exciting time because there were no rules. You could go and knock on Sun Ra's door - and he was in the phonebook, under Ra!

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

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.

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.

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