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I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
Comedian
Composer
Conductor
Pianist
Stand-Up Comedian
København
Børge Rosenbaum
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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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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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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
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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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Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
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What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?The Nazi lifts his arm.
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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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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 difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?
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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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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
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Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
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There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
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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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(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
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Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.
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They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
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