34 Quotes by Lawrence Welk
- The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
- Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
- We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
- Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
- One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
- One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
- Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
- Sounds always fascinated me.
- Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
- The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.
- The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
- When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
- There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
- This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
- Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.
- You know, it's a long world.
- Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
- Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
- I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.
- My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
- It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
- In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.
- If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
- By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
- If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.
- For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.
- His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
- If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.
- I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.
- I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
- I just had an idea that went right over my head.
- I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.
- I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
- I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
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