Quotes by Sun Ra

First of all I express sincerity. Theres also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy because of it. They need to smile and realize how ridiculous everything is. A race without a sense of humor is in bad shape. A race needs clowns. In earlier days people knew that. Kings always had a court jester around. In that way he was always reminded how ridiculous things are. I believe that nations too should have jesters, in the congress, near the president, everywhere.....You could call me the jester of the Creator. The whole world, all the disease and misery, its all ridiculous.

We hold this myth to be potentialNot self-evident but equationalAnother DimensionOf another kind of Living Life

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

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

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldnt be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; musics got these bars and measures you know.

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

Im playing dark history. Its beyond black. Im dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

What Im dealing with is so vast and great that it cant be called the truth. Its above the truth.