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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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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
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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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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
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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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Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.
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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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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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I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.
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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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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
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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 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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How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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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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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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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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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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The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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