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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.”

May States Fighting Belief Poet Expression Direct Celebration Tango

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.”

Needs Should Believe Two Agreement Palestinian Tango

Author:Silvan Shalom

“Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.”

Years Enjoy Quality Talent Pure Twenties Dancing Dance Favors Spite Unusual Refinement Tango Spaniards

Author:Curt Sachs

“Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.”

Difficult Business Kindness Defeat Things To Do Hospitals Difficult Things Comeback Simplification Tango Inspirational Kindness Generosity And Kindness Words Of Kindness Human Kindness Personal Dignity Bladder Restless Heart Lost My Dad

Author:Jonathan Ive

“I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it.”

Should Believe Looks Stills Plastic Surgery Look At Me Saviour Plastic Surgery Tango

Author:Astor Piazzolla

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

Feet Ears Tango

Author:Astor Piazzolla

“I loved dancing the tango at the 1994 Nurses Ball Talent Show. I thought I'd be dancing with Brad Maule (Tony) but the writers revved up the passion by pairing me with Leigh McCloskey, my lover Damian. During dress rehearsal, for a goof, Leigh and Brad ran into each others arms instead!”

Shows Passion Talent Arms Lovers Balls Dresses Dancing Ran Nurse Rehearsal Brad Tango My Lover Goofs Talent Show

Author:Jacklyn Zeman

“Niggas know my pussy taste like mango-tango so they put a couple karats in my ankle bangles”

Knows Money Couple Taste Ankles Pussy Tango Bangles

Author:Nicki Minaj

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

Courses Actors Movie Dancer Crash Tango

Author:Robert Duvall

“When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.”

Author:Robert Duvall

“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.”

Looks Inspire Embrace Partners Tango Music And Dance Dance Partner

Author:Carlos Gavito

“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.”

Moments Happens Secret Silence Steps Impossible Dance Improvisation Impossible Things Tango Inspirational Dance

Author:Carlos Gavito

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Feelings Music Dance Immigration Immigrants Mistaken Nationality Migration Passports Argentina Tango

Author:Carlos Gavito

“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.”

Thinking Care Music Steps Feet Listening Dance Paint Following Painter Dancer Aspire Tango Inspirational Dance Music And Dance Dance Steps

Author:Carlos Gavito

“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.”

Feelings Can Do Steps Sensitivity Gymnastics Tango

Author:Carlos Gavito

“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.”

Knows Want Important Movement Solitude Important Things Emptiness Gaps Tango

Author:Carlos Gavito

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

Shoes Knees Ballet Boots Bent Tango Ballet Shoes

Author:Marie Windsor

“I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.”

Years Kind Different Done Past Band All Kinds Over The Past Tango

Author:Gary Burton

“My baby she'll take a chance, my baby got a brand new dance, Wango Tango, Wango Tango.”

Chance Baby Dancing Brands Take A Chance Brand New My Baby Tango

Author:Ted Nugent

“You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.”

Raises Dancing Tango Masochism

Author:Tom Lehrer