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I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer.

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

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

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

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I'm committed to the purity of my art form.

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

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

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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.

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What does genius mean? God has put us here specifically... every person has a job or journey to do. It's just a matter of finding what we're here to fulfill or execute. That's genius to me.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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