Quotes About The Tango Dance

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

Marie Windsor

#2. 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

#3. ...Tango is not just a dance. It's our human condition. To everyone who loves tango, it's what art is to the artist. A way to connect past and future. But you already know this my dear...

Kapka Kassabova

#4. 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

#5. That's because those pages got torn to shreds when you left, now you both are in different chapters. He wants you - like always, and you want the hot guy down the street. Typical Frankie and Brody style. You guys dance one wild tango, if you ask me.

A.M. Willard

#6. I love to dance and perform the Argentine tango - it breathes love!

Gilles Marini

#7. 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

#8. [His faith] was a hundred small perfect steps that in the end can never add up to dance ... not the kind I wanted, anyway. Not the tango of Argentina, of the Spanish birthday party.

Addie Zierman

#9. Dance tango and you are literally plastered up against somebody's body

Janny Scott

#10. It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.

Allie Burke

#11. When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.

Robert Duvall

#12. The tango, by 1914, had been officially declared immoral, and dancers went through its showy steps under threat of being dragged off the floor to jail unless light was visible between the partners and they refrained from doing any demoralizing dance steps, like "snake-wiggling" at the shoulders.

Christine Wiltz

#13. You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#14. There's too much psychology in the world.
People should live by the Golden Rule. And dance the Tango. Passion is good.

Lee DeBourg

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

Ted Nugent

#16. 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.

Curt Sachs

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

Tom Lehrer

#18. When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.

Marina Abramovic

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. The tango is a very interior dance. It's not an exterior - it's not flashy and all over the floor. It's a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs.

Robert Duvall

#22. The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.

Lillian Russell

#23. 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.

Erin McCarthy

#24. Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.

Erol Ozan

#25. 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.

Seanan McGuire

#26. Human beings used to be molecules which could do many, many different sorts of dances, or decline to dance at all
as they pleased. My mother could do the waltz, the tango, the rumba ...

Kurt Vonnegut

#27. I can't dance, remember?" I whispered.
"It's just a tango. It is like sex, except with clothes on." Then, squeezing me closer: "Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot, you do not know how to do that either.

Joe Schreiber

#28. It takes two to tango; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#29. I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Pope Francis

#30. It was an Argentine tango, fierce and sexy, and Reed was delicious with it. With his confident and elegant movements, their dance was almost like having sex with their clothes on.

Sylvia Day

#31. It takes two to tango but just one dance with the devil to bring the house down.

Jason Versey