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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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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
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Børge Rosenbaum
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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 oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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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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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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What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?The Nazi lifts his arm.
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Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.
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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
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...the elephant smoked too much.
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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 normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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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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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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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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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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I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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