"One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers."

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Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

Lawrence Welk

#Music Quotes #Orchestra Quotes #Shampoo Quotes

“I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.”
“You learn more doing than doing training.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst the chaos, i felt alone, in need of a friend instead of a sister, someone detached from my world. The "woman's role" theory disgusted me. I would soon be a woman, and I knew I could never perform as expected. I was tired of my mom's submission to her religion, to her husband's sick quest for an heir, to his abuse. I was sick of my dad, of reaching for him as he fell farther away from us and into the arms of Johnnie WB.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013
“Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!”
“Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.”
“It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce of will and strength. You will lose a part of yourself trying to save something essential and innocent. And when you have given everything, you will recover and you will be set free, and you will discover there was even more in you than you ever knew.”
“All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.”

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