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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. "
Savion Glover
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" I'm happy that people think of me as the greatest tap-dancer that ever lived. But it's just a rumor. Because the greatest dancer that ever lived knows everything, and I don't. I'm still learning. I still have a lot of work to do. "
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Work
Happy
Learning
" 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. "
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New York
Mother
" 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. "
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Feel
" I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music. "
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Take
Through
Try
" I don't really care what the visual is looking like. I've gotten away from - not shenanigans, but spectacle. "
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Like
Care
Away
" I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms. "
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Complex
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Patterns
" I'm a basketball freak. "
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Freak
Basketball
" 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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Safe
" 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. "
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Alive
Dancing
Me
" 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. "
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Think
Here
Gone
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Best
Not Talking
Saying
" 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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Stop
Shoes
Think
" What I'm trying to do is bring young people into doing tap so that the art form will keep going. "
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Art
Trying
People
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Love
Find
Know
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Opinion
Music
People
" 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. "
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Place
Person
Right
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Without
Credit
Now
" 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. "
Savion Glover
People
Van
Singing
" I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces. "
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Great
Pieces
Where
" 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. "
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Time
Stage
Show
" There's a whole new generation who know about tap dancing thanks to 'Happy Feet.' "
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Feet
Generation
Happy
" 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. "
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Jazz
Always
Street
" 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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Youth
Blessing
Create
" Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing. "
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Steps
Always
Changing
" I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same. "
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Work
Myself
Dancers
" 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. "
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Spark
Cry
Earth
" Everything has to do with meditation. It's a conversation; it's a joy - it's everything. "
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Conversation
Meditation
Joy
" I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance. "
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Never
Art
Business
" I'm committed to the purity of my art form. "
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Art Form
Art
Form
" 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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People
Long
Feet