Top 58 Borge Quotes
#1. They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.
Tomas Borge
#2. A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
Victor Borge
#3. Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
Victor Borge
#4. I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
Victor Borge
#5. You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
Victor Borge
#6. 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.
Victor Borge
#7. I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.
Elrey Borge Jeppesen
#8. I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.
Elrey Borge Jeppesen
#9. 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.
Victor Borge
#10. If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor Borge
#11. Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
Victor Borge
#12. It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.
Victor Borge
#13. I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.
Victor Borge
#14. Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.
Tomas Borge
#15. When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
Victor Borge
#16. Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
Victor Borge
#17. I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary.
Victor Borge
#18. 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.
Victor Borge
#19. Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.
Victor Borge
#20. The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
Victor Borge
#21. 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?
Victor Borge
#22. I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
Victor Borge
#23. I just can't comprehend, that you, Borge, of all people, couldn't keep your mouth shut.
Steen Langstrup
#24. The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.
Tomas Borge
#25. (Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
Victor Borge
#26. There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
Victor Borge
#27. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
#28. I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
Victor Borge
#29. That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?
Victor Borge
#30. I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
Victor Borge
#31. 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
#32. Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
Victor Borge
#33. He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Victor Borge
#34. There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
Victor Borge
#35. The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
Victor Borge
#36. What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?The Nazi lifts his arm.
Victor Borge
#37. Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.
Tomas Borge
#38. (Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
Victor Borge
#40. The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge
#41. I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
Victor Borge
#42. If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.
Tomas Borge
#43. 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.
Victor Borge
#44. 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.
Victor Borge
#45. Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
Victor Borge
#46. My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
Victor Borge
#47. They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
Victor Borge
#48. 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.
Victor Borge
#49. 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.
Victor Borge
#50. (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?
Victor Borge
#51. Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year
Victor Borge
#52. Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.
Victor Borge
#53. And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.
Elrey Borge Jeppesen
#54. Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
#55. The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
Victor Borge
#56. In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist
but I found I had nothing to say.
Victor Borge
#57. Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
Victor Borge
#58. 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.
Victor Borge
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