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Sun Ra [1914-1993]

Rank: 102
Musician, Composer

Sun Ra was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his experimental music, "cosmic philosophy", prolific output, and theatrical performances.

Music, History, Society, Space

Quote	Tags	Rank
Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.	Music, Society	101
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.		102
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.	History	103
Music is a language, you see, a universal language.	Music	104
And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.	Space	105
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.		106
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.		107
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.		108
A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.		109
I use music as a medium to talk to people.		110
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.		111
People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.		112
Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.		113
I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.		114
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.		115
I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.		116
All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.		117
A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!		118

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