Savion Glover Quotes

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

I really don’t make history; I preserve it.

It may not be art, but it is history.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.

History takes time... History makes memory.

Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.

I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go.

I started off in dance. That was actually my first passion, which introduced me to music, which people don't really know.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it's like air: it's like everything else that we need in order to survive. I'm blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form.

We want every generation to know a little something about TLC.

The young guys keep me motivated. Youngsters coming up behind me.

I like to make history.

We should train kids in the music and dance of our legends. That's how we can keep the traditions alive.

My personal style at this point in my life is more audio; it's more driven on less visual and more musicality. But because of my upbringing, my fabulous mentors and teachers that I've had throughout my dance journey or career, I also possess a style that is of the past. It was just a matter of me reaching back.

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.