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" I was always looking at footage of dancers from Nicholas Brothers to Ralph Brown to Sand Man to Miller Brothers and Lois, and I grew up looking at old footage. "

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" 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. "

Savion Glover

Day

Happy

Feet

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

Savion Glover

Alive

Dancing

" 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. "

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

" I don't think I'm a genius. Not yet. "

Savion Glover

Think

Genius

" 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

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

" I love riding my ATV 450. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Savion Glover

Say

People

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

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

Savion Glover

Brother

Always

" I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces. "

" 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. "

Savion Glover

Learn

Listen

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Savion Glover

Care

Away

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

Savion Glover

Little

Open-Minded

" 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. "

Savion Glover

God

Journey

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

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

" 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. "