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" I am realizing and accepting my role as a tap dancer in this world is not only to tap dance for the sake of performance, but through tap dance be able to share and spread a message and congregate with people I would not necessarily be with had it not been for dance. "

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" My personal style at this point in my life is more audio; it's more driven on less visual and more musicality. But because of my upbringing, my fabulous mentors and teachers that I've had throughout my dance journey or career, I also possess a style that is of the past. It was just a matter of me reaching back. "

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Past

Style

" I wasn't into tapping when it began dying down. Ever since I started, it's been alive for me. I just want to keep on dancing. I want to do it all. "

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Alive

Dancing

" I want to share what I have, and I'd rather share it with people that are a little bit more open-minded. "

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Open-Minded

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

" I'm continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music. "

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Music

Process

" 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. "

" The Nicholas Brothers were the best tap-dancers. I'm not talking about their flash-dancing, I'm talking about tap-dancing. They were really saying something with their feet. "

" When Puffy asked me to do the video, I said yes. Cuz it's all about the Benjamins! "

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Yes

About

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

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Grain

Against

" It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor. "

" 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. "

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Know

Will

" 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. "

" I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics. "

" There are many different styles of, and approaches to, tap. My own leans towards a more intellectual view: tap dancing not just for the sake of entertainment but to educate and spark emotion. "

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

" Jimmy Slyde was more a musician than a dancer; Greg Hines was more musician than dancer. "

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Dancer

Jimmy

" For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself. "

" Everything has to do with meditation. It's a conversation; it's a joy - it's everything. "

" When I wake up in the morning, I just go. "

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Wake

Morning

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

" 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. "

" I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music. "

" I don't really care what the visual is looking like. I've gotten away from - not shenanigans, but spectacle. "

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Care

Away

" I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet. "

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Rock

Some

" What does genius mean? God has put us here specifically... every person has a job or journey to do. It's just a matter of finding what we're here to fulfill or execute. That's genius to me. "

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God

Journey

" There's no dancer alive better than those of the 1950s and 1960s. It's only the energy that changes. Every now and then, someone like me comes along, and people say, 'Oh, this guy is this new thing.' But that's not so. There is no me without them. The tradition just goes on. "

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Say

People

" Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it's like air: it's like everything else that we need in order to survive. I'm blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form. "

" 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 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. "

" I dance anywhere. I just start moving my feet. "