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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
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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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Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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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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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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Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
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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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There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
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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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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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The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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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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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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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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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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I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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