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" 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. "

Savion Glover

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Savion Glover

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

" 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. "

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

Savion Glover

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Jimmy

" I'm thankful I am able to continue to share the joy and the inspiration tap brings. "

" 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. "

" Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it. "

" I'm a basketball freak. "

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Basketball

" I actually wanted to be a fireman when I was younger. "

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

" 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

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Listen

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Savion Glover

Grain

Against

" I see myself helping the next generation of dancers who come along, helping them to keep the dance focused, so we don't get into a position where they're saying in 2050, or whatever, that around 2001 or 2002 or something the dance died. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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Will

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Savion Glover

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