Savion Glover Quotes

It's important to evolve without ever straying too far from your roots and what established you.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

Guess will always be loyal and true to its roots.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don't try to tell anybody else's story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn't, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.

One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind... who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead.

I'm the original Conor McGregor. I'm the original model of Conor McGregor. He wouldn't be who he is if it wasn't for me. Nothing against him. I'm the original real deal.

Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.

Originality is going back to origins.

Most of my influences are from the past.

We know where we're going cause we know where we're from.

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.