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

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

" It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Who is Savion Glover? Who is that guy? Good question. I'm a lot of things... Intense... Focused. "

" 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. "

" My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story. "

" I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The connection of what I do to flamenco lies in the whole lament, whole cry, whole pouring back into the earth and giving energy back to the earth. It's a cry and a celebration. That's what music, sound, vibration should do. It should spark energy in someone. "

" Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing. "

" 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'm still growing, still learning. I'm still open and vulnerable enough to know there's much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don't reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all. "

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

" The spirituality of the dance, that's something that's evolved for me in the past ten years or so. I'm still trying to figure out where that's taking me. "

" Great athletes last because they let the mental do all the work. What we do as hoofers is not so much a physical strain as everybody thinks. It's more of a mental stretch. "

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

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