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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
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
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Sonny Blount
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Herman Poole Blount
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Sun Ra Arkestra
Herman Lee
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Sonny Bourke
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A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
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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'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.
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Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.
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If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes
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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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I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
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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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Those who will not dance will have to be shot
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Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.
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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
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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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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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If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
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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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Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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