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" 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. "

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Process

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" 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. "

" Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it. "

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

" I can hold a note, but that's about it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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Just

Ownership

" When you find real jazz on the radio dial, it comes in all static-y. It's just like tap dancers. You have to go uptown to find the real hoofers. We only come to midtown if we're called upon. "

" I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I see myself helping the next generation of dancers who come along, helping them to keep the dance focused, so we don't get into a position where they're saying in 2050, or whatever, that around 2001 or 2002 or something the dance died. "

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

" 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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Dance

Mom

" I'm just blessed, man. I'm just happy to share my art form with everyone. That's cool. "

" There are people who take tap class, do a tap dance. And then there are people who know the dance, who know why they take tap classes. Who know why they do 20 shuffles, or 50 shuffles, before they go on. "

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

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Jimmy

" The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create. "

" 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

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

" 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. "