Quotes About Tango

Me tocó una compañera muy seguidora, que iba como adivinándome la intención. El tango hacía su voluntá con nosotros y nos arriaba y nos perdía y nos ordenaba y nos volvía a encontrar.

Destiny prefers to repeat forms, and what happened once happens often. - A History of the Tango

Perfilados bien por un fondo de paredes celestes o de cielo alto, dos compadritos envainados en seria ropa negra bailan sobre zapatos de mujer un baile gravísimo, que es el de los cuchillos parejos, haste que de una oreja salta un clavel porque el cuchillo ha entrado en un hombre, que cierra con su muerte horizontal el baile sin música.

What do you do when you get mad—dance a tango with a ground squirrel?

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.

I once went to La Boca district, where you can watch street performers doing tango, and joined in. But it's very hard to dance in Birkenstocks.

A while ago, I got a chance to learn tango for a performance in my college.

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

The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money.

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

I tried to play Piazzolla's 'Grand Tango' at 20 and failed miserably. You need a little experience of life for tango.

'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'

I really thought 'El Tango Roxanne' was perfect for Halloween night. It's creepy and intense.

'Tango' is very much an ensemble piece and I was devastated when I read the script.

My body's weird and bent in different ways, but it's handy for the tango!

I actually enjoyed making 'Tango In The Night.'

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits.

If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere.

It's really hard to be all serious in the tango and not break into laughter.

I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.

I love ballroom dance, my favorite style being the Argentine Tango.

In my childhood, I was very fond of western music and dance forms like Hip Hop, Salsa, Tango, etc.

If this were a musical, this would signal the start of a dance number. Angry girls sexy danse in unison around the bull pen. Men stride up and grab a partner to a choreographed tango. Nolan held his hand out. Give me your man card. You have never sounded more like a girl than right now.