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" 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. "

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

" I've come to realize that people dance for reasons of their own. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I'm a genius. Not yet. "

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Genius

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

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

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Yes

About

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Dance

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's no dancer alive better than those of the 1950s and 1960s. It's only the energy that changes. Every now and then, someone like me comes along, and people say, 'Oh, this guy is this new thing.' But that's not so. There is no me without them. The tradition just goes on. "

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People

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

" 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. "

" They're taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that's a terrible thing. "

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

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

" 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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Learning

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

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Against

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

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