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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. "

Savion Glover

Opinion

Music

People

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Savion Glover

Grain

Against

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

" 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

" 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. "

Savion Glover

Trying

Dance

" 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. "

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

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

Savion Glover

Think

Genius

" 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. "

" I wasn't into tapping when it began dying down. Ever since I started, it's been alive for me. I just want to keep on dancing. I want to do it all. "

Savion Glover

Alive

Dancing

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Whatever you do, just learn about what you're doing; get into it. "

" 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'm a basketball freak. "

Savion Glover

Freak

Basketball

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

Savion Glover

Dancer

Jimmy

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

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

" There are people who take tap class, do a tap dance. And then there are people who know the dance, who know why they take tap classes. Who know why they do 20 shuffles, or 50 shuffles, before they go on. "

Savion Glover

Dance

Class

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

Savion Glover

Brother

Always

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

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

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