Savion Glover Quotes

Music is part of our culture.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Music is the soul of language.

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

Dance is in my background.

Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.

Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.

My music is about identity.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

I dance. I don't really do anything else.

Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

Well-written words are music.

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.