Space is the Place Quotes

“Sonny said, “If music is in your heart, you can’t do anything wrong.”
― John Szwed, Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

“Ra created his own cosmology and yet took care of earthly business by keeping a band together for forty years. This should at least give pause to those who think Sun Ra was crazy, a con, or an outer space minstrel man.”
― John F. Szwed, Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

“Sun Ra had built an alternative universe, a different history (not “his story,” but “my story,” he said), one in which ancient Egypt and outer space were its defining polarities, and the metaphysical and metaphorical dimensions of his thinking could not be ignored or downplayed.”
― John F. Szwed, Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

“Two large “alternative Bibles” were there, The Urantia Book from 1955 and Oahspe: A New Bible, 1882, both of which had generated their own cults and attracted some famous followers among musicians.”
― John F. Szwed, Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

“I didn’t always understand it, but rather than try to confirm or debunk it, I took it as linguistic evidence and hoped that at a later date I could find parallels and analogues to Sun Ra’s thought among other mystics and theologians.”
― John F. Szwed, Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra