Zitat des Tages von Sun Ra:
And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.
Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
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.
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.
All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
