Sun Ra Quotes & Sayings

“A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!”

“I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.”

“And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.”

“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.”

“I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.”

“What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.”

“Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.”

“Music is a language, you see, a universal language.”

“The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.”

“I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.”