JAS (Club Mix)

This is a 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 a falseness
It's like a mass personality

Just made me so narrow
That I couldn't really do again myself justice so

I just broke totally away from that whole modern dance 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 the 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

Jazz

Miles Davis
Nina Simone
John Coltrane
Alice Coltrane

They are very serious kind of artists
They approach their craft as if it's a life, a way of life
Jazz
A form of relaxation
It's a form of emotional release
I felt raised, I felt lifted
And I realized once I began to take my art form seriously
That the divinity would rap from you
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Gave me a discipline
It gave me an ability to expand my mental power
Because then I had to begin to analyze and look into
All this emotion, all this feeling
And all of this gave me a sense of totalness
A 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

Jazz
Miles Davis
Nina Simone
John Coltrane
Alice Coltrane
They are very serious kind of artists
They approach their craft as if it's a life, a way of life
Jazz

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