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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
Comedian
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Conductor
Pianist
Stand-Up Comedian
København
Børge Rosenbaum
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Longer
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Viola
Burns
Violin
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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
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The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.
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How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
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Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
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When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.
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What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?The Nazi lifts his arm.
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...the elephant smoked too much.
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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
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You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!
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I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.
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