Savion Glover Quotes

Technology has changed the way we think about music.

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.

The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create.

I never thought we were a country band in the first place. I think we've gotten ourselves into a place where we don't underestimate our listeners and what potential there is for the music they've heard all their lives.

I'm definitely a fan of dance music. I guess we really call it 'dance' music because music seems to have become very functional. For years, people were trying to be everything. Now, musicians are becoming very specific.

I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

If hip-hop is dead, then let it rest in peace and let's move on to something else.

My intention now, more than anything, is to promote kids and deserving musicians. Because the time I've seen, I want them to see a better one.

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

In the U.K. especially, dance music goes in cycles. It's often kids reappropriating sounds they loved when they were younger, but were too young to be a part of.

I like to take it back, cause I'm an old soul. Growing up, my brothers, I'd grow up hearing what they were playing, and that's how my taste has evolved.

When it comes to music, something I'm passionate about, and knowing the reach and the power and how it transforms, it saves lives. Music does.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it's not like that.

I want to just change how people look at music and artists.

I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.

In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs.

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

I found dozens of albums I loved every year of the early 70s and more in the late 70s and more still in the decades since, partly because I knew more about music by then and partly because there were more to choose from.

People unfortunately think that if you progress as a musician you are wimpy. I don't get that.

I've listened to a lot of different styles of music growing up, and they've all influenced me at different times in my life.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

I think that essentially, since music was invented, it's basically reached out and touched every single kind of conceivable generation.

I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.