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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Victor Borge

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Børge Rosenbaum
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The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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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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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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...the elephant smoked too much.
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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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Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.
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Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
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That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?
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One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.
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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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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
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In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.
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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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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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