When Puffy asked me to do the video, I said yes. Cuz it’s all about the Benjamins! Savion Glover Read Quote
Frank Sinatra changed people’s approach to singing. Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, van Gogh, they were all part of movements that allowed people to think about their craft differently. They changed the game. These people changed the game. Savion Glover Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The sound of tap is not ‘clickety clickety tap tap,’ this monotone thing. The sound of tap has depth. We want you to hear the different highs and lows, the bass, the trebles and the melodies, if you can. Savion Glover Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My style is raw; my style is ’95. My style is what I live. My style is my story. Savion Glover Read Quote
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. Savion Glover Read Quote
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 Read Quote
