Sun Ra Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Country, People

• I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for this planet is because the Master-Creator of the Universe is making me do it. I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.

  Sun Ra

  People, Needs, Earth

  Press release by A&M Records, 1989.

• 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.

  Sun Ra

  Air, Honor, Noble

  Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.250, BoD – Books on Demand

• I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.

  Sun Ra

  Thinking, Jazz, Mystery

  Interview with Jennifer Rycenga, November 2, 1988.

• I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.

  Sun Ra

  People, Want, Jazz

• The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Thinking, World

• Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Dream, Eye

• The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already
  know my music.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Brother, Space

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

  Sun Ra

  Music, Dark, Black

• 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

  Music, Jazz, Jazz Music

  "Sun Ra: Un noir dans le cosmos". Book by Aurelien Tchiemessom, April 1, 2005.

• I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Jazz, Type

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