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A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
Sun Ra
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Sun Ra
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: May 22
Died: 1993
Died: May 30
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Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
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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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I have many names some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.
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If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes
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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
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It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
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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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I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
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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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Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
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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 dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.
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Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
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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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Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
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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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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
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I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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