Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.

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...

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

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.

And then when I went to Chicago, that’s when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

I am a musician, but I’m another type of musician.

What I’m dealing with is so vast and great that it can’t be called the truth. It’s above the truth.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

The world is in such a bad condition that if they don’t find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I’m doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

Today’s symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

I’m not a minister, I’m not a philosopher, I’m not a politician, I’m in another category.

First of all I express sincerity. There’s also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy because...

I’m playing dark history. It’s beyond black. I’m dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

We hold this myth to be potentialNot self-evident but equationalAnother DimensionOf another kind of Living Life