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" 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. "
Savion Glover
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Know
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" There's a whole new generation who know about tap dancing thanks to 'Happy Feet.' "
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Feet
Generation
Happy
" 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. "
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Sometimes
Bring
Safe
" I can hold a note, but that's about it. "
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Note
Hold
About
" A tapper sticks to existing routines. Whereas hoofing... a hoofer pushes the art form. "
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Art
Form
Pushes
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Me
Think
Learning
" I don't think I'm a genius. Not yet. "
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Think
Genius
" I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms. "
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Complex
Deal
Patterns
" 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
Past
Style
Me
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Community
Music
Blessed
" For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself. "
Savion Glover
Voice
Step
Dance
" I was always looking at footage of dancers from Nicholas Brothers to Ralph Brown to Sand Man to Miller Brothers and Lois, and I grew up looking at old footage. "
Savion Glover
Sand
Old
Dancers
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Day
Happy
Feet
" I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer. "
Savion Glover
Than
Percussion
Instrument
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Art
History
Looking
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Music
People
Feel
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Music
Mission
Mind
" 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
Find
Radio
You
" 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. "
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Long
Theatre
Time
" I'm a basketball freak. "
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Freak
Basketball
" Great athletes last because they let the mental do all the work. What we do as hoofers is not so much a physical strain as everybody thinks. It's more of a mental stretch. "
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Mental
Last
Great
" I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings. "
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Want
Entertain
Interested
" Tap is still the central driving force of my life. I think and talk in dance. "
Savion Glover
Life
Dance
Driving
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Progress
Women
Relationship
" I want tap to be something danced in arenas. Sort of like a rock group. Other art forms happen every night. Take theater, opera; there's always opera happening every night. "
Savion Glover
Night
Always
Want
" Everything has to do with meditation. It's a conversation; it's a joy - it's everything. "
Savion Glover
Conversation
Meditation
Joy
" I'm continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music. "
Savion Glover
Music
Accept
Process
" I'm going to continue to tap until I can't move. "
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Continue
Going
Until
" I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics. "
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Deal
Colors
Characteristics
" 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. "
Savion Glover
Chance
Happy
Life
" It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor. "
Savion Glover
Land
Down
Feet