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If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes
Sun Ra
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Sun Ra
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: May 22
Died: 1993
Died: May 30
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Birmingham
Alabama
Sonny Blount
Herman Sonny Blount
Herman Poole Blount
Herman Blount
Sun Ra Arkestra
Herman Lee
Le Sun Ra
Le Sony'r Ra
Sonny Bourke
Le Sun-Ra
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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 And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer
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The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music.
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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.
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Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
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A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
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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.
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What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
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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 monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality.
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In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.
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Those who will not dance will have to be shot
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Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
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Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
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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.
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I have many names some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.
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A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
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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.
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