Sun Ra Music Quotations

Music is a language, a universal language.

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

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

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

Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

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

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

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

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