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Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.

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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
Beethoven
Flats
Twice
Wrote
Moved
Three

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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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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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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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...the elephant smoked too much.
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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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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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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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They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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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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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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I do not have a single white note on my piano my elephant smoked too much.
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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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