Lawrence Welk Quotes

"Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Conversation, Lady)

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

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

"One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Ambition, Daughters, Mothers)

"One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Music, Time)

"Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Famous)

"Sounds always fascinated me."
- Lawrence Welk

"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
(Related: Dreams, Education, Music, English)

"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
(Related: Girls, Nation, Sisters, Years)

"The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Music)

"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
(Related: Country, First, Parents)

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

"This is the best biography by me I have ever read."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Biography)

"Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Now, Right)

"You know, it's a long world."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: World)

"Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Love, Trust, God, People)

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

"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
(Related: Order, Practice, Succeed)

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

"Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Music, Home, Joy)

"Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Life, God)

"It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Act, Despair, Moments)

"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
(Related: Time, Dancing, Depression, Evening)

"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
(Related: Faith, Money, Strength, Job, Will)

"If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Play)

"By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Family, Music, Business, People, Years)

"If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Quality, Voice)

"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
(Related: Sound, Trouble, Trying)

"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
(Related: Desire, Improvement, Will)

"His act may start out slow, but it tapers off."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Act, May)

"If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Love, Planning)

"I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Life, Father, Brothers)

"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
(Related: Successful, Being)

"I have never been an innovator, a creative genius."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Genius)

"I just had an idea that went right over my head."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Idea, Right)

"I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet."
- Lawrence Welk

"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
(Related: Life, People, Crowds, Nothing)

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

"I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Forget, Words, Wrong)