Savion Glover Quotes

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Tap's foundation is jazz, just like hip-hop, so relating tap-dancing to rap is natural for me.

I'm basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what's known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.

Comedy and music are so similar because it's all about timing.

Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.

I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother.

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.

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.

I wanted to be a tap dancer when I was very young.

Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the crowd, a tap dancer always has a step.

If there was a wrong note, it didn't matter as long as it was rocking.