Top 99 Quotes by Savion Glover

About Savion Glover

These are some quotes by American author Savion Glover Dancer, who was born on November 19, 1973.

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.

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

I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same.

I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same.

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.

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 try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.

I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.

Savion Glover

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

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

Savion Glover

There are people who take tap class, do a tap dance. And then there are people who know the dance, who know why they take tap classes. Who know why they do 20 shuffles, or 50 shuffles, before they go on.

Savion Glover

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.

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

I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.

I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.

Savion Glover

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

My mom couldn't afford dance shoes, so she put me in these old cowboy boots with a hard bottom so I could get some sound out. I used them for seven months. When I finally got real tap shoes, I was nervous. I kept moving my feet, thinking, 'Oh, so this is how it's supposed to sound.'

Savion Glover

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