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There are many different styles of, and approaches to, tap. My own leans towards a more intellectual view: tap dancing not just for the sake of entertainment but to educate and spark emotion. - Savion Glover

I love riding my ATV 450. - Savion Glover

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

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. - Savion Glover

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

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

I never really stop and think about should I put my hat on this way or that, not thinking that little JoJo down the street would be copying that. I'm more conscious about it now and tell the kids that it's not about the shoes or what kind of shoes... it's all about the dance. - Savion Glover

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. - Savion Glover

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. - Savion Glover

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

I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer. - Savion Glover

I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet. - Savion Glover

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

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

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

There's no dancer alive better than those of the 1950s and 1960s. It's only the energy that changes. Every now and then, someone like me comes along, and people say, 'Oh, this guy is this new thing.' But that's not so. There is no me without them. The tradition just goes on. - Savion Glover

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

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

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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

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

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