Savion Glover Quotes

I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.

As a drummer, I'm rhythmically so disabled that it's hilarious.

I can't dance.

I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.

Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.

I've listened to musicians who say that using a metronone makes you robotic, that it decreases your 'feel.' That's ridiculous. Either you have feel or you don't. Feel is one of those intangibles that can't be taught. But if you do have feel, using a metronome will allow you to play cleaner - and that'll make your 'feel' have more, well, 'feeling.'

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

I'm definitely influenced by the music. We dance to music, and you have to listen to it and phrase your dancing and movement in a certain way to compliment the music. We have to work hand in hand, the dancer and the music.

I tap dance.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.

People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

I love music and I love to dance.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.