Tango Quotes

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  If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

  Al Pacino

  Tangled, Ifs

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• The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.

  Carlos Gavito

  Dance, Impossible Things, Silence

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• The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Fighting, Expression, May

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• I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

  Carlos Gavito

  Music, Dance, Thinking

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• The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when the man feels that he is a male and the woman feels that she is female, without machismo. She likes to be led; he likes to lead. Disagreements may occur later or they may not. When that moment comes, it is important to have positive and productive dialogue, fifty-fifty. The music arouses and torments, the dance is the coupling of two people defenseless against the world and powerless to change things.

  Juan Carlos Copes

  Dance, Men, Two

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  Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

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• The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO.

  Carlos Gavito

  Solitude, Important, Movement

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• Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.

  Carlos Gavito

  Gymnastics, Feelings, Steps

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• The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.

  Robert Duvall

  Ends, Walks

  "If You Hire Robert Duvall Not to Flinch, He Damn Well Won't Flinch". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 16, 2014.

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• Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate. It is about power and vulnerability. It is both dance and metaphor. And to its captives becomes a magnificent obsession

  Janny Scott

  Dance, Discipline, Serious

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• When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal … “Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music.

  Carlos Gavito

  Inspire, Looks, Embrace

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• For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.

  Astor Piazzolla

  Feet, Ears

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• If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don’t want to dance, then you’re going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.

  Sherman Alexie

  Running, Love You, Men

  "War Dances". Book by Sherman Alexie, August 10, 2009.

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• A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet.

  Carlos Gavito

  Music, Dance, Thinking

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• The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Argentina, Culture, Combination

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• It takes two to tango; when I go, you go.

  Malcolm X

  Two

  Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael (1968). “Luther King, Malcolm X, Brown, Carmichael, textos sobre el poder negro”

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• The Argentine tango is very special to me because it's full of sensuality. The chemistry between the man and woman is absolutely stunning.

  Gilles Marini

  Men, Special, Chemistry

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• My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

  Robert Fulghum

  Dance, Sweet, Night

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• When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.

  Robert Duvall

  Thinking

  "Robert Duvall: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.

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• The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night.

  Mira Grant

  Children, Night, Play

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• You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

  Robert Duvall

  Movie, Dancer, Actors

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• Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

  Simone Elkeles

  Daddy, Horizontal

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• Dance tango and you are literally plastered up against somebody's body

  Janny Scott

  Dance, Body

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• I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

  Manuel Puig

  Watches, Literature, Taste

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• It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.

  Krishna Das

  Two, Needs

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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