“ You can dance a lot of things—anger, sensuality, pleasure—everything can be transmitted in the dance. But to find the right woman that produces that chemistry is not easy. So to ask what happened, I don't know what happened. It's like a beautiful dream, where you don't exactly know what happened, but you know it was beautiful. ”
“ I've stayed in 20,000 places, and equally I've had to get up in 20,000 places. I've lost incalculable fortunes three of four times, and I've come back from zero. I've come to know the good and the bad in the whole field with tango. But I always lived for tango. Everything I have, tango gave me. And everything I've lost in life, tango took away. ”
“ 50 years I've been dancing. and I challenged myself to dance with 7,000 dance partners. So I made a book during these 50 years to count my 7,000. But I've surpassed myself, now I'm at 7,530. ”
“ People fall in love with show dancing. They say I want to learn this. But in the measure in which they are introduced and as time passes and they are more informed, later they are not interested in the stage. They want to dance on the social floor. Social dancing and stage dancing are different. Two different things altogether. One is show dancing, the other is social tango, and I say the real tango is the social tango. ”
“ You are transformed. It is as if you are touched by a magic wand and you are no longer you. You are inside those lyrics, that music and you are transformed. You live it and you think it will never end. It is an ecstasy. ”
“ If you're dancing a tango with someone who knows how to dance, it's to feel an emotion of happiness, to be transported, and to be carried away by the music. It's like being in heaven. ”
“ What do you put? You put this, the heart. I think in every dance I am going to die. I fall to pieces. You put desire. It's beautiful. For me, tango is everything. It's strength, love, happiness, sadness sometimes. Because it has many stories. Every tango lyric is the story of each one of us. ”
“ I think that the dance for all us milongueros—because we are not dancers, we are milongueros—is life, life itself. It penetrates you, you have it inside you, and it's a physical necessity, a material necessity, and a spiritual necessity to go to a milonga and dance a tango. ”
“ I began to dance on stage, open style, all open, up until I went to the milonga. There I discovered a totally different thing that I was missing... So, in reality, I began to learn tango tango in the milonga. Only in the milonga. I danced with the milongueros... It's a completely different body feeling in the moment and it continues to be a discovery every time even though I know their dance, I know their language, the steps that they'll do, but it continues to be a discovery. ”
“ What the social dance gives you is the experience of getting to know another person through the embrace and the dance. And from that an infinite number of feelings are awakened that have to do with that moment, which is a unique and unrepeatable moment. And that's the marvelous thing. ”
“ You have to feel the music. Because the music enters through the ear, lowers to the heart, and then lowers to the feet. You have to feel the tango or you will never be able to dance it. ”
“ We have the luck that the young have come back. But it's another thing, another feeling, more choreographic than sentimental. I believe they are going to succeed us and they are going to continue tango, because at some point those of us who know more are going to disappear. ”
“ I think humans try in life to win against death in whatever way we can. Tango is a way to win against death. We are creatures that know we are going to die, and therefore we must be very alive in the time that we have to exist. Tango is not the only way—there are many—but it is a very attractive way. ”
“ I would say, first, that whoever wants to learn tango has to have a very special ear for the music. And, second, you must love tango. Tango is very passionate, very special because there are too many feelings invested in it. It's like a story between a man and a woman sung by the music. ”
“ I would say tango is the romance of a man with a woman and of a woman with the floor. It's the most marvelous thing there is. ”
“ So, when I say that after 50 years of dancing tango, 365 days a year, at 20 tangos a day, you've danced doing a quick calculation, 7 million tangos and you still want to dance, indisputably tango is life. Do I live by tango or for tango? I don't think I could live without tango at my side. ”
“ It's passion. It's life. It's to feel alive when you dance, to feel like you are fulfilling something for yourself that is as necessary as water or to eat. ”
“ Tango is the possibility that any person has to express his feelings, which might otherwise go unexpressed in the rest of his life. The journey of tango has that possibility—to exaggeratedly express oneself, to exaggerate your feelings to a supreme point, to ecstasy. ”