Woetoe’s Reviews > A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra > Status Update

‘The rendezvous time is here
I see a prophesy:
Across the thunder bridge of time
We rush with lightnin’ feet
To join hands with those,
THE FRIENDS OF SKILL,
Who truly say and truly do.’
— Sun Ra

‘We must not say no to ourselves
When there is a greater deed to do,
We must not say can’t
If it is not imperative that we should.
But we never should really believe that we can’t
Whenever it is for our necessity good.’ — Sun Ra

‘Musicians can play, and sometimes I tell ‘em “I can’t hear you”, and they play louder. And I say. “I still can’t hear you because my spirit can’t hear you”. When you start dealing with spirit things like I am, you rise up above religion, philosophies, and everything else man is talking about. That makes it quite difficult to get to a person, because they are not used to that.’

‘You see, if you put it on the other way, then it’ll look like you got wings. You got to start using your intuition. The problem with the people of this planet is they be forgetting they got other senses.’

‘When the harmonies move in a direction that they are not supposed to move in and still fit, you got another message from another realm from somebody else, and Superior Beings would definitely speak in other harmonic ways because they’re talking to something different. You have to have chord against chord, melody against melody, and rythm against rythm. When you have that, you’re expressing something else.’

‘It makes sense to me that if the Creator would send anyone here, it would be a person who had mastered music, the planet’s universal language. Sound is the beginning of all creation, the Nommo, the Om, and the Nam that direct our lives, the basis dor what Sun Ra called Sound Government.’