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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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In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
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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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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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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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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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What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?The Nazi lifts his arm.
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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 difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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...the elephant smoked too much.
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When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
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I do not have a single white note on my piano my elephant smoked too much.
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I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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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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They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
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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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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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