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" I don't like being too serious. I'm the type of person that, if the mike isn't in the right place when I go on, I just move it. Other people, they'll be all frantic. I'm more relaxed. "
Savion Glover
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" My mom couldn't afford dance shoes, so she put me in these old cowboy boots with a hard bottom so I could get some sound out. I used them for seven months. When I finally got real tap shoes, I was nervous. I kept moving my feet, thinking, 'Oh, so this is how it's supposed to sound.' "
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" I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics. "
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" There's a whole new generation who know about tap dancing thanks to 'Happy Feet.' "
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" I wake up, and I'm in the zone... My performance is the continuation of my life. "
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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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" 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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Me
" I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, but in my mind it may be a piano, a melody, or a tuba, or a harp, or a harmonica. My mission is to allow people to hear the dance in its purity and up against any other type of sound or music. "
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" I love riding my ATV 450. "
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Love
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" I'm thankful I am able to continue to share the joy and the inspiration tap brings. "
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I Am
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" 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. "
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Stage
Show
" I'm committed to the purity of my art form. "
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Art
Form
" Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and over about 30 times. Live theatre is that one time and one time only. "
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Theatre
Time
" I don't think I'm a genius. Not yet. "
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Think
Genius
" Who is Savion Glover? Who is that guy? Good question. I'm a lot of things... Intense... Focused. "
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Guy
Question
Things
" I'm just blessed, man. I'm just happy to share my art form with everyone. That's cool. "
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Cool
Blessed
Art
" I'm happy that people think of me as the greatest tap-dancer that ever lived. But it's just a rumor. Because the greatest dancer that ever lived knows everything, and I don't. I'm still learning. I still have a lot of work to do. "
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Happy
Learning
" I'm going to continue to tap until I can't move. "
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Continue
Going
Until
" I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone. "
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Think
Here
Gone
" Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing. "
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Steps
Always
Changing
" I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces. "
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Pieces
Where
" 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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" We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain. "
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" I don't really care what the visual is looking like. I've gotten away from - not shenanigans, but spectacle. "
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" 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. "
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" Every now and then, someone comes along - we used to call it 'New Jack' - tries to do something new, tries to take all the credit, without acknowledging the past. "
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Credit
Now
" I come from a long line of people who express themselves through the dance. I come from a long line of people who create music through their feet. "
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Feet
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Start
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