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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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
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Herman Blount
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Herman Lee
Le Sun Ra
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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
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A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
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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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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
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I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.
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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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It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
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Those who will not dance will have to be shot
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A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
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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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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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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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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
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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'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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If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
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Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.
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