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Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
Sun Ra
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Sun Ra
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: May 22
Died: 1993
Died: May 30
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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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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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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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I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
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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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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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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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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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If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
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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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Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
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A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
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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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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
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It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
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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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Music is a language, a universal language.
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