Argentine Tango quotes

Tango Quotes

"El Tango es un pensamiento triste que tambien hasta se podria bailar"
The Tango is an unfortunate believed that you can dance. (Enrique Santos Discépolo)

"performers will be the professional athletes of God" -Albert Einstein

"Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal need."- George Bernard Shaw

"The types of tango are just like stages of a married relationship. The American tango is similar to the start of a relationship, when you're both really intimate as well as on your best behavior. The Argentine tango is when you are in the heat of things and all kinds of thoughts are traveling: passion, fury, humor. The International tango is similar to the termination of the relationship, if you are remaining together with regard to the kids."

"Tango bubbled up from the brothels and low-life, then when we see scruffy teenagers moving tango in fitness center footwear and jeans, i do believe that is great."

GARCIN: so it is a man you want?
ESTELLE: No Actual guy. You.
GARCIN: No humbug today. Any man would do your online business. As I are already right here, you need myself. Mind, I'm maybe not your sort whatsoever, actually; I'm maybe not a nincompoop and I also don't dancing the tango.
- from No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

" the infinite tango takes myself towards every little thing ".
como dice Borges: "El infinito tango me personally lleva hacia todo".

" and I hear the echo of these tangos of Arolas and Greco
that We have seen danced inside streets "
"Y oigo el eco de esos tangos de Arolas y de Greco
que yo he visto bailar en las veredas".
Jorge Luis Borges, poema "El tango"

"The tango is an immediate expression of something which poets have actually usually attempted to state in words: the belief that a fight are an occasion. "
“El Tango es la directa expresión de lo que comúnmente los poetas han tratado de definir en palabras como: la creencia de que la lucha puede ser un festejo” Jorge Luis Borges.

"It is no indication of insanity to tango. It was settled yesterday by a lunacy percentage which decided that Sadie Jefferson is sane. It had been alleged the woman tangoed entirely to police headquarters recently when she was arrested."
Midnight within the Garden of great and Evil by John Berendt

"El Tango es el producto social más auténtico del país de los argentinos "
The Tango is more genuine social item of the Argentineans. (Ernesto Sábato)

"Sin Calles ni atardeceres de Buenos Aires no podria escribirse un Tango "
Minus the streets nor dusks of Buenos Aires a Tango may not be written (Jorge Luis Borges)

El Tango es el pulso normal de la muñeca de Buenos Aires
The Tango could be the normal pulse (regarding the wrist) of Buenos Aires (Leopoldo Marechal)

"Dancing with abandon, switching a tango into a fertility rite"
Marshall Pugh- Uk journalist

The Tango conveys that length between which everybody else does and exactly what it really is.
"El Tango expresa esa distancia entre lo que cada cual hace y lo que es" (Alberto Girri)

"winter months Palace flamed throughout its windows like a mountain pierced with holes and lit by an inside fire. The galley stretched lengthy and deep using its polished articles and gleaming floors for which were reflected the gold, the candles in addition to paintings...The whirlwind associated with waltz billowed the dresses like those of whirling dervishes, plus the rate of development, the nets of diamonds plus the strands of silver elongated on their own in serpentine flashes like lightning, and little gloved hands put delicately in the epaulettes of waltzers appeared as if white camellias in vases of solid gold." Theophile Gaultier (describing a ball at the Winter Palace at St.
Petersburg, 1858)

"We enter this globe alone. We leave it nearly the same way. And in-between, a dance we call life. Issue is it will take two to Tango. Therefore we search for signs; one thing to simply help us locate our perfect lovers. A smile, a wave. But we have to be mindful; because while many signs is misinterpreted, others are missed entirely.Some dances you sit out. Other individuals you change partners. The main thing is...you never ever stop dance." -Chuck Fishman, Early Edition