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" 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. "

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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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Old

Dancers

" 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

" They're taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that's a terrible thing. "

" I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms. "

" I'm going to continue to tap until I can't move. "

" When I'm on TV or whatever, I'm able to bring my instruments, my board, and my sound is intact. But other kids who are on TV, when they're doing tap, sometimes they're just on the regular floor. It's not as safe; it's not as sound-worthy as it should be. "

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

" 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. "

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

" What we're looking for at my school is intellectuals. People who want to talk about the art and be knowledgeable about it. People who want to know the history. Not everybody needs to be performing. "

" 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. "

" They all come from the street - tap, jazz and flamenco. And the streets are always changing. If it comes from the streets, change is the only thing that's consistent. "

" 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. "

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

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

Savion Glover

Just

Ownership

" I started as a drummer. The feet are an extension of that. "

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

" 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. "

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

Savion Glover

Wake

Morning

" The sound of tap is not 'clickety clickety tap tap,' this monotone thing. The sound of tap has depth. We want you to hear the different highs and lows, the bass, the trebles and the melodies, if you can. "

" Tap's foundation is jazz, just like hip-hop, so relating tap-dancing to rap is natural for me. "

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

Savion Glover

Yes

About

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a basketball freak. "

Savion Glover

Freak

Basketball

" 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. "

" 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. "