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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
Moved
Three
Beethoven
Flats
Twice
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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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Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
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The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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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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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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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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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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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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How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
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Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.
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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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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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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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