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Sun Ra
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Sun Ra
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: May 22
Died: 1993
Died: May 30
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Sonny Blount
Herman Sonny Blount
Herman Poole Blount
Herman Blount
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Herman Lee
Le Sun Ra
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Sonny Bourke
Le Sun-Ra
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If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes
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Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
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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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What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
Sun Ra
Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.
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If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
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I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
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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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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
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A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
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Those who will not dance will have to be shot
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It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
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Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
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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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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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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
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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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