Author: Sun Ra

Quotes

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

- Sun Ra

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

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

- Sun Ra

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

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

- Sun Ra

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

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

- Sun Ra

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

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

- Sun Ra

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

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

- Sun Ra

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

- Sun Ra

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