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" Frank Sinatra changed people's approach to singing. Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, van Gogh, they were all part of movements that allowed people to think about their craft differently. They changed the game. These people changed the game. "

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" Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the crowd, a tap dancer always has a step. "

Savion Glover

Know

Will

" Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing. "

" I feel it's my duty, my job, now to allow people to hear the dance to different genres of music, to ensure audiences have the chance to listen to tap dancing up against all these other styles. "

" I actually wanted to be a fireman when I was younger. "

" I've come to realize that people dance for reasons of their own. "

" If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me. "

Savion Glover

Just

Ownership

" There's a whole new generation who know about tap dancing thanks to 'Happy Feet.' "

" I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same. "

" I never really stop and think about should I put my hat on this way or that, not thinking that little JoJo down the street would be copying that. I'm more conscious about it now and tell the kids that it's not about the shoes or what kind of shoes... it's all about the dance. "

" They're taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that's a terrible thing. "

" I'm always inspired by music, things of that nature. Just life in general. I'm happy to be waking up and having another chance at it. "

" I want tap to be something danced in arenas. Sort of like a rock group. Other art forms happen every night. Take theater, opera; there's always opera happening every night. "

" I love riding my ATV 450. "

" I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms. "

" I was first introduced to dancing through the TV: I remember watching ballet, jazz and ballroom dancing when I was very little. But I felt no connection with it whatsoever: it was just like watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon. "

" We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain. "

Savion Glover

Grain

Against

" Tap is still the central driving force of my life. I think and talk in dance. "

" Tap's foundation is jazz, just like hip-hop, so relating tap-dancing to rap is natural for me. "

" I'm committed to the purity of my art form. "

" I used to think I had this responsibility to carry on this tradition. Now I just feel like I have to keep the dance out there, keep it in the public eye. "

" My show mode is that the dressing room is like going into the cockpit. Going down the stairs is like going on the runway, and once we begin performing, it's flight time. I'm just floatin' on that stage. "

" My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story. "

" I try new stuff every time I perform. I have steps I do that I know are definite, and stuff I can make up right then and there and then forget. "

" What I'm trying to do is bring young people into doing tap so that the art form will keep going. "

" Whatever you do, just learn about what you're doing; get into it. "

" My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies. "

Savion Glover

Brother

Always

" I wake up, and I'm in the zone... My performance is the continuation of my life. "

" I'm inspired by breath, by the human body - by so many things. "

" There's a tendency to think tap's had its day, but 'Happy Feet' kept us in the race. That penguin is our Shirley Temple. "

" I grew up watching Gregory Hines banging out rhythms like drum beats, and Jimmy Slyde dancing these melodies, you know, bop-bah-be-do-bap, not just tap-tap-tap. Everyone else was dancing in monotone, but I could hear the hoofers in stereo, and they influenced me to have this musical approach towards tap. "