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Tribute to Victor Borge


Pieter Smal

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Victor Borge was without a doubt, the greatest entertainer of our time! It is for us to follow his example when giving a concert. It is for me to stage the fright or fright the stage or something like that. Enjoy the quotes (below) and follow the You Tube Links for a delightful taste of who he was.

-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?

-I love this piano... I get about 4 sonatas to a gallon of red wine on it...

-... Very expensive these pianos... It's not mine! But they come in a six pack!

-I have been looking forward to this evening's performance ever since... 7:30... two weeks ago.

-I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary.

-I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

-I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

-Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

-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.

-I only know two pieces, one is 'Clair de Lune', the other one isn't.

-The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

-When you go home, please drive home extremely carefully. Extremely carefully. Because I walk in my sleep!

-It's your language, I'm just trying to use it...

-Giuseppe Verdi. Joe Green to you.

-I'm going to play it with both hands so it will end faster.

-I'm Lou Borg.

-You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

-There will be no dancing during this number... unless you absolutely have to!

-I'm going to play a piece...by a Danish composer. Umm... Mozart. Hans Christian Mozart!

-(Holding someone's red tie) Oh, I thought you were bleeding.

-We have a neighbour, well who doesn't...but he's our next window neighbour, because he does not have a door at that end of the house!

-My grandfather gave me this watch...a few minutes before he died...for 20 bucks...plus tax!

-The soprano... is about four and a half feet tall... Lying down.

-And now, Brahms! Joey Brahms! ...Brahms spelled backwards: "Smharb."

-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.

-Before we start, the Baldwin Piano Company has asked me to say that this is a Steinway Piano [or vice versa].

-(Inspecting the piano) Hmmm

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NO REPLIES? You're kidding me. This man was genius. I very badly would like to play his version of the Hungarian Rhapsody duet with someone, but I know nobody who knows it.

I've been known to do things like he does... sneak Happy Birthday into the middle of Mozart or Chopin, but he does it better. OBVIOUSLY. It is my dream to perform like he did... people in this generation are completely missing out on that kind of humour nowadays. A pity, really.

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