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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!
Victor Borge
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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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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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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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The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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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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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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Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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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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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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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
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Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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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 do not have a single white note on my piano my elephant smoked too much.
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Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
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