Sun Ra
Sun Ra
Sun Rawas an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his experimental music, "cosmic philosophy", prolific output, and theatrical performances. He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1979. For much of his career, Ra led "The Arkestra", an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up...
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth22 May 1914
writing structure money-and-power
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
bars want able
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.
people use mediums
I use music as a medium to talk to people.
freedom-of-speech speech
Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
music thinking world
The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.
bridges people understanding
Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
absence ifs
If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
moving earth sound
The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.
europe america people
Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
today structure music-is
Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
notion
It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
brother men jail
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.
prayer ignorance feelings
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
spiritual music-is materials
Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.