Lawrence Welk famous quotes

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Blessing #Years #Lasts

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Good Day #Bad Day

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Love #Trust #God

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Jobs #Motivational Work #Trying

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Dream #Lessons #Speak

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Desire #Improvement #Kind

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Creative #Genius #Innovators

Sounds always fascinated me.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Sound

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Successful #Trying #Firsts

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Music #Pittsburgh #Hospitality

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Biographies

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Father #Musical #Pumps

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Country #Parent #Unions

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.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Trying #Sound #Bottles

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.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Nice #Successful #Pitfalls

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Music #Home #Joy

You know, it's a long world.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Bad Day #Long #World

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Joy #Use #Able

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Nice #Women

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Music #Orchestra #Shampoo

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Night #Chill #Spine

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Talking #Down And #Conversation

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Real #People #Crowds

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Brother #Father #Farmers

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Mothers Day #Daughter #Ambition

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.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Sister #Girl #Years

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Business #Years #People

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Patterns #Dukes

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Laughing #Lines #Forget

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Spaniards

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.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Order #Practice #Succeed

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Voice #Quality #Attributes

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Planning #Performing #Audience

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.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Dancing #Evening #Way

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Despair #Moments #Curious

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Plans

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Talking #Accents #Conversation

Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?
-- Lawrence Welk

#Boys #Together #Sticks