[Tango-L] tango quote

[Martin Waxman]

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