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Sun Ra

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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.


— Sun Ra


#brother #endures #him #his #insane

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


— Sun Ra


#music #see #universal #universal language #you

Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.


— Sun Ra


#america #europe #know #knows #many

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.


— Sun Ra


#his #own #people #prophet #recognize

The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.


— Sun Ra


#call #child #condition #eliminated #every

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


— Sun Ra


#society #sponsored #structures #symphonic #symphonic music

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


— Sun Ra


#called #dealing #great #i #truth

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.


— Sun Ra


#black #cosmos #dark #dealing #history






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During concerts the OVC usually was positioned at center stage behind the Arkestra while Sebastian sat on stage with the musicians. A month later they performed at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art in conjunction with an exhibition that explored the intersection of the Arkestra's performing legacy and the practice of contemporary art. His equation was rarely (if ever) explained as a whole; instead it was related in bits and pieces over many years leading some to think his world view was naïve or composed of nonsensical new-age platitudes.

Sun Ra denied any connection with his birth name saying "That's an imaginary person never existed … Any name that I use other than Ra is a pseudonym. Sun Ra asserted that the ever-changing name of his ensemble reflected the ever-changing nature of his music. It was by turns called "The Solar Myth Arkestra" "His Cosmo Discipline Arkestra" the "Blue Universe Arkestra" "The Jet Set Omniverse Arkestra" and many other variations.

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