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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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" 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. "

" I've changed my whole angle for dance. I'm moving towards moving back rather than hanging out with my peers. I'm reaching back to older dudes for a second. "

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

" I was very happy with the success of 'Noise/Funk,' but of course, there is a lot more that I have to say about the dance, about the history, about the people involved with the dance and their history. "

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

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

" I love riding my ATV 450. "

" 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. "

" 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'm thankful I am able to continue to share the joy and the inspiration tap brings. "

" I'm a basketball freak. "

" 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. "

" 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 was a drummer in a group called Three Plus. We were performing at a club in New York, and my mother signed me up for tap classes. I fell in love from the door... so you can blame it on my mother. "

" La Cave was a great platform for me to learn and be able to listen in on conversations and just get a lot of notes and teachings from those older guys. "

" It wasn't until I did a musical revue in Paris in the 1980s called 'Black and Blue,' and met the great men and women responsible for the progress of tap dance, that my relationship with the dance really began. "

" 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. "

" When you think about John Coltrane, in my opinion - and I think I share this opinion with a lot of people - his approach to music changed other people's approach to music. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings. "

" You can go to see a singer and love the show, but you don't need to know all the songs. What you want to do when you leave is go and find out more about the music. "

" Whether it is Jimmy Slyde or Lon Chaney or Gregory Hines, their dance shows what they experienced, what they had to go through. "

" 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. "

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

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

" A tapper sticks to existing routines. Whereas hoofing... a hoofer pushes the art form. "

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

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