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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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Stand-Up Comedian
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Børge Rosenbaum
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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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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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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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I do not have a single white note on my piano my elephant smoked too much.
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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
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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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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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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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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
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There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
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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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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
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Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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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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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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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 only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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