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" 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. "
Savion Glover
Out
Peers
Back
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" 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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" I can hold a note, but that's about it. "
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" If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me. "
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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 come from a long line of people who express themselves through the dance. I come from a long line of people who create music through their feet. "
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" 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. "
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" I dance anywhere. I just start moving my feet. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Last
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" 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. "
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" I'm thankful I am able to continue to share the joy and the inspiration tap brings. "
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" 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. "
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" I love riding my ATV 450. "
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" Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it. "
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Study
Most
" 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. "
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Responsibility
Think
" Whatever you do, just learn about what you're doing; get into it. "
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Get
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" 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. "
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" My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies. "
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Me
" I'm going to continue to tap until I can't move. "
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" I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same. "
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" I want to share what I have, and I'd rather share it with people that are a little bit more open-minded. "
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Open-Minded
" 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. "
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Down
Feet
" Jimmy Slyde was more a musician than a dancer; Greg Hines was more musician than dancer. "
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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
" 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. "
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Bring
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" 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. "
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Shoes
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" 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. "
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Radio
You
" 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. "
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Credit
Now
" 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. "
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" I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet. "
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