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" Every performance is different because I'm different; my mood is different. "

" 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. "

" Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it's like air: it's like everything else that we need in order to survive. I'm blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form. "

" I'm a basketball freak. "

" Tap is still the central driving force of my life. I think and talk in dance. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm committed to the purity of my art form. "

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

" Tap's foundation is jazz, just like hip-hop, so relating tap-dancing to rap is natural for me. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "