Savion Glover Quotes

The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.

I definitely went through this whole phase of seeing what my seniors or friends would be wearing and just copying that.

We are in love with youth culture in this country... It permeates every aspect of people's lives.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

I think I do my own thing. I start my own trends. I see a lot of girls doing what I've been doing. Pink. Nobody wore pink, and now everybody wears it. It's flattering.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.

Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.

When it comes to other celebrity brands, I think a lot of people do a great job, but it can't be all about them. Everybody doesn't want to just look like the celebrity, because they can't. They just want one element of that style.

A lot of my friends inspire my style, and they don't even know it.

When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

Teenagers are more willing to experiment, and they'll find a way to wear something if they like it.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

I don't look to celebrities for style anymore because I've learned the chain of command. They are being dressed by a stylist who's getting inspiration from a 16-year-old kid running the streets of Melbourne, Australia. Once I learned that chain of command, I just started taking it to the streets.

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

When you're younger, it's all about conformity and being easily influenced - especially in terms of fashion. You just follow the trends. Whatever is hot at the moment, you want to get it. You basically just want to be doing what everyone else is doing. But as you get older, those things aren't as important.