John F. Szwed

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John F. Szwed



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“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

“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

“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

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