20 quotes
It takes a motion to notion
and it takes a notion to motion.
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)
I see them as they are to is
And not the seeming isness of the was.
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)
Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)
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.
Liner notes for Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy (1966)
The impossible attracts me because everything possible has been done and the world didn't change.
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 : Un noir dans le cosmos (2005)
Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never.
Behold, behold this thisness!
This isness.
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)
I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.
Out of nowhere they come like embers suddenly aflame
With living reach
Spiral infinity
Being. Yes. Out of nowhere they come from the no point.
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)
People have a lot more of the unknown than the known in their minds. The unknown is great; it's like the darkness. Nobody made that. It just happens.
I probably do what I'm controlled to do. Something … made all this: some Impossibility without a name. That's what the world is controlled by: an Impossibility.
Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)
The future is never
Never comes tomorrow
Never is not
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)
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.
a press release by A&M Records (1989)
Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.
In some far off place
Many light years in space
I’ll wait for you.
Where human feet have never trod,
Where human eyes have never seen.
I'll build a world of abstract dreams
And wait for you.
Liner notes to Monorails and Satellites (1968)
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
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)
When the person Myth meets the person Reality
The spirit of the impossible-strange appears
In dark disguise
It is always there where nothing inverts itself
and becomes something
Whatever is the imperative need
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)
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. Music is existence, the key to the universal language. Because it is the universal language.
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)