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" My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love riding my ATV 450. "

" What does genius mean? God has put us here specifically... every person has a job or journey to do. It's just a matter of finding what we're here to fulfill or execute. That's genius to me. "

" I was first introduced to dancing through the TV: I remember watching ballet, jazz and ballroom dancing when I was very little. But I felt no connection with it whatsoever: it was just like watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon. "

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

" I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces. "

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

" Jimmy Slyde was more a musician than a dancer; Greg Hines was more musician than dancer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music. "

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

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

" 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'm a basketball freak. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" I am realizing and accepting my role as a tap dancer in this world is not only to tap dance for the sake of performance, but through tap dance be able to share and spread a message and congregate with people I would not necessarily be with had it not been for dance. "