This is the 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, uhm, 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 bе me
I wanna be human
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Miles Davis, Nina Simonе, John Coltrane
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It's a form of relaxation
It's a form of emotional release
I felt raised, I felt lifted
And I realized that once I began to take my art form seriously
That the divinity would wrap me
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Miles Davis, Nina Simonе, 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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I got very involved with blackness
'Cause, it was more, more me I guess
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
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Do your thing
Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas
Do your thing
Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas
Do your thing
Jas, jas, jas, jas, jas
Do your thing