Sun Ra Quotes

American jazz composer and bandleader (1914–1993)

Sun Ra (22 May 1914 – 30 May 1993), born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra, was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances.

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Alternative Names: Sonny Blount • Herman Blount • Herman Poole Blount • Le Sony'r Ra • Le Sun Ra • Sonny Bourke • Le Sun-Ra • Herman Lee • Herman "Sonny" Blount

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I probably do what I'm controlled to do. Something … made all this: some Impossibility without a name. That's what the world is controlled by: an Impossibility. It's controlled by someone they call "God" who never had a beginning and naturally had no end. And in a sense He doesn't exist, because of the standards of reality, because everybody knows something can't just happen — but if there is a God, that's what happened; just happened to be, and without ever having not been — they got to face that.

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.

In some far off place Many light years in space I’ll wait for you. Where human feet have never trod, Where human eyes have never seen. I'll build a world of abstract dreams And wait for you.

Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.