Sun Ra - Native son of the planet Saturn whose cosmic visit to our planet allowed him to spend 79 highly creative years in our realm of existence producing some of the most profound, transformative and original music of the 20th century. He travels the spaceways..

Sun Ra came from Saturn. Interplanetary earth arrival date May 22 1914. Place : The Magic City, Birmingham, Alabama. USA

“I'm one that will cause people to scratch their heads in wonderment in search of their hollow hearts and look in their souls and wonder, Where did he come from? What is he?” ― Sun Ra #BOTD

Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen - Saturn Birmingham AL - Friday, May 22 2026 / Show: 8:00PM - In honor of Sun Ra Day 2026

Today we celebrate the anniversary of the Interplanetary arrival of Sun Ra to planet earth. space is the place. (22 May 1914 - 30 May 1993) #SunRa

Sun Ra Day Festival 2026 - London UK

Sun Ra Day Festival 2026 - Birmingham Alabama US

SUN RA ARRIVAL DAY BROADCAST 12:00AM TO 11:59PM/Fri May 22 2026 - tune in wkcr.org 24 hours

A lot of musicians do too many things that are not spiritual. The whole thing comes down to survival, they only think about making money. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra and his Arkestra :: Somewhere Over The Rainbow (1977) July 3 :: Strut Records expanded reissue :: 3 LPs/2-CD strut.bandcamp.com/album/somewh...

Charles Davis - Sun Ra Arkestra (May 20 1933 – July 15, 2016) He travels the spaceways from planet to planet.

There are no shadows where I am because I am the fire of the lightening and the flame of the Sun. (Sun Ra)

Outer space is big and real and compelling And the music which represents it must be likewise. The music of the past will be just as tiny in the world of the future as earth itself is in the vast reach of outer space. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra, Marshall Allen & Michael Ray, at the Bayou, Washington, DC, 1978

I'm from somewhere else, definitely. If I was born, I definitely existed somewhere else before birth. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra & June Tyson.

Omniverse (Expanded) von Sun Ra & His Arkestra https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/omniverse-expanded #playmusic #now

You want a better world, put the blueprint down, I'll make it for you. (Sun Ra)

10 years ago: Sun Ra Arkestra @ Passing Clouds, London, 14th May 2016

Reality is not just what we see, there is another existence, we are beings from beyond. (Sun Ra)

That's How I Feel. Sun Ra youtu.be/zQBeVdymxXk?...

There is no other way to speak to everyone in language each can feel and understand except through music. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra and his Arkestra 6/2/1990 live at Piazza della Riforma o Lugano (Transparency DVD) youtu.be/RVys_mD1PHo?...

Children of the Sun (Sun Ra Arkestra) - Cosmic Arts Brooklyn - May 12th 2026 - (Rising from the celestial tide of vibration carried through the immortal frequencies of Sun Ra, come the luminous descendants of his cosmic vision-legendary voyagers of his Arkestra)

Sun Ra - Ann Arbor Jazz Festival 1972 Photo: Michael Ullman.

There is hidden beauty everywhere And the potentials Leap across the barriers of time Into eternal spirals of the celestial cosmos tone way.. (Sun Ra)

Omniverse is the totality of all the universes and you are welcome to be citizens of the Omniverse. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra with his Arkestra in Palalido Stadium, Milano, 1980. Photo by Cesare Rotondo

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra & His Ethnic Structural Cosmo Arkestra - Live At Red Creek Rochester, NY 1986

On this planet, it seems, it has been very difficult for me to do and be of the possible things and projects. As I look at the world today and its events and the harvest of possible things, I like the idea of the impossible more and more. (Sun Ra)

Many musicians think that most people are destined to be musically ignorant, but I know that there is a spark in every person which will respond and glow to the touch of beauty. Because I know this, I am going to continue presenting beauty. (Sun Ra)

Silence is music. There are different kinds of silences, each silence is a world all its own. (Sun Ra)

The Intergalactic Sun Ra #SunRa

You might say I'm a spiritual scientist and also a Cosmo musical scientist. (Sun Ra)

Limitation of the mind brings limitation of the spirit and limitation of the spirit is the state of Held. (Sun Ra)

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The wisdom of the past is the light of the past The light which is to be is the wisdom of the future The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow. (Sun Ra)

The word space is the synonym for a multi-dimension of different things other than what people might at present think it means. I leave the word space open, like space is supposed to be, when I say space music. (Sun Ra)

You have to have chord against chord, melody against melody, and rhythm against rhythm. When you have that, you’re experiencing something else. (Sun Ra)

A Certain Beat
A Sudden Chord
These things charm the mind with veiled enchantment that lingers long after the song is done. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra Arkestra :: Live In Berlin, 1970 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/27/s... Off-axis early peak expansion. Captured at a moment when the Arkestra was stretching further into its own woozy mythos, Berlin 1970 hangs in low orbit, charged with a sidelong electricity.

You can’t get off this planet but two ways, You have to die off it or somebody rescue you. I can easily be rescued by spaceships, If I request rescuing, I can get it. If humanity won’t help me some other type of beings will land and take me away. I keep that exit open (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra - Space Is The Place.

Sun Ra Arkestra - Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt - Dec 12, 1971. Photos by Harmut Geerken.

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

This is the space age.. A new direction Beyond the gravitation of the past. You will learn to journey with courage. With fiery-aim To reach the splendour days Of the even greater tomorrow Of the Cosmo-age. (Sun Ra)

Words are Music whether written or Spoken and Music is a Voice and another Sound of Words. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One - ESP Label - Recorded at Studio RLA, New York, April 20 1965 / The back cover describes it as an "album of compositions and arrangements by Sun Ra played by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra".