What I am dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.- Sun Ra
Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
The world is in such a bad condition that if they do not find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.
People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.
Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
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.
I am playing dark history. It's beyond black. I am dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
I am not a minister, I am not a philosopher, I am not a politician, I am in another category.
I use music as a medium to talk to people.
I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
I am a musician, but I am another type of musician.
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.
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
And then when I went to Chicago, that is when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.
