"Sun Ra used to tell us years ago, when he was doing all this avant-garde, free-spirit stuff, what we were doing was 'music for the 21st century'. Now, this was way back in the '50s. I thought, '21st century? Man, that's a long ways away.' I didn't think that time would ever come."
- Marshall Allen
"I think of myself as a mystery. To myself." - Sun Ra, 1988