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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
Three
Beethoven
Flats
Twice
Wrote
Moved

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A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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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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When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
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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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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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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
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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 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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