Discipline was Sun Ra's preachment - his major preachment. You know, Michael Ray told me, when they - you know, they practiced every day and they all lived in the same house, so they could get up - and I've seen them do it, when I did that interview in 1966 - and I was talking to Ra, he was sitting at the keyboard, it's about noon, and guys start appearing in this little three-room apartment. I looked over there and here's a guy climbing out from under the grand piano, where he's been sleeping, and I look over there by the window and here's a guy coming off his mat on the window ledge, he's been sleeping there, and another guy's sleeping here, on the couch. They get up, you know, and walk in, have a bowl of cereal, and put on whatever they were putting on - a shirt, or whatever - and then they could come in and, as each came in, Sun Ra would tell them what they working on that day, and they would start working. And they did this every day.
Wayne Kramer, interviewed in Sun Ra: Interviews and Essays