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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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Sun Ra
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: May 22
Died: 1993
Died: May 30
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Sonny Blount
Herman Sonny Blount
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Sun Ra Arkestra
Herman Lee
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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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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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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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It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
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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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Those who will not dance will have to be shot
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I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
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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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Music is a language, a universal language.
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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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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
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Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.
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Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
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Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.
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I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.
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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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If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes
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