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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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Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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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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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?The Nazi lifts his arm.
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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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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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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
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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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(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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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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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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In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.
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A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
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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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