Savion Glover Quotes

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Savion Glover

Profession : Dancer

Birth : November 19, 1973

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.

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

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

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

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If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me.

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

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My show mode is that the dressing room is like going into the cockpit. Going down the stairs is like going on the runway, and once we begin performing, it's flight time. I'm just floatin' on that stage.

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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.

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

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

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I love riding my ATV 450.

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What I'm trying to do is bring young people into doing tap so that the art form will keep going.

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I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer.

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

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Whether it is Jimmy Slyde or Lon Chaney or Gregory Hines, their dance shows what they experienced, what they had to go through.

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I come from a long line of people who express themselves through the dance. I come from a long line of people who create music through their feet.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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