JAS

This is all kind of a mass culture, we live in
And it makes you, you look
You look like something
Or act like something that you really aren't
You know, it's like, um, a falseness
It's like a mass personality
Just made me so narrow, that I couldn't,
Really, do
I gave myself justice
So, I just broke totally away from that whole mighty damn thing
They had a lot of rules and regulations
Which just didn't fit with me you know
I wanna do this the way I wanna do it
I wanna determine my own destiny
I wanna determine how I am to speak on a stage
I don't wanna be a mass personality
I don't wanna be a one dimension
I wanna be me
I wanna be human

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Miles Davis
Nina Simone
John Coltrane
Alice Coltrane
They are very serious kinds of artists
They approach their, their craft as it's a life
A way of life
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A form of relaxation
It's a form of emotional release
I felt raised, I felt lifted
And I realised that once I began to take
My art form seriously, that
The divinity, would wrap me

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Gave me a discipline
It gave me, um, an ability to
To expand my mental power
Because then I had to begin to analyse
And look into, all this emotion
All this feeling
And all of this gave me a-a-a-a sense of totalness
I-I need to be in an atmosphere that is free That is open
That is striving for truth
And not somebody else dictating to you
How to do your thing
Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas

Miles Davis
Nina Simone
John Coltrane
Alice Coltrane
They are very serious kinds of artists
They approach their, their craft as it's a life
A way of life
Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas

And I used to sit there all day long
And listen to all those
Beautiful voices, you know, black voices
And because of that, I got very involved with blackness
'Cause, it was more, more me I guess