At 11:11 AM 1/4/2009, carolyn merritt wrote: >Does anyone happen to know the source of this quote? I assume the >original is in Spanish... >mil gracias, >Carolyn > >"Other music exists to heal wounds; but the tango when sung and played >is for the purpose of opening them, for the purpose of sticking your >finger in the wound and to tear them until they bleed." >_______________________________________________
Listed here as Author Unknown: http://posnersmith.net/quotes_d.html The original author could be Ramon Gomez -- see the end of his comments on the History of Tango: http://pythia.uoregon.edu/~llynch/Tango-L/misc/tango-history.txt And here -- just below the middle of the page: http://jrbailoteca.freehomepage.com/tangoeng.htm Marty _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
