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" Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and over about 30 times. Live theatre is that one time and one time only. "

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" 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

" Whether it is Jimmy Slyde or Lon Chaney or Gregory Hines, their dance shows what they experienced, what they had to go through. "

Savion Glover

Jimmy

Dance

" 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. "

" I grew up watching Gregory Hines banging out rhythms like drum beats, and Jimmy Slyde dancing these melodies, you know, bop-bah-be-do-bap, not just tap-tap-tap. Everyone else was dancing in monotone, but I could hear the hoofers in stereo, and they influenced me to have this musical approach towards tap. "

" We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain. "

Savion Glover

Grain

Against

" I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" There are many different styles of, and approaches to, tap. My own leans towards a more intellectual view: tap dancing not just for the sake of entertainment but to educate and spark emotion. "

" I search for different tonalities in my taps. But my greatest pleasure is hearing a note I haven't heard before, hearing a chord that sparks something new. "

" 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

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

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

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

Savion Glover

Yes

About

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

" 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. "

Savion Glover

Think

Learning

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same. "

" 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. "