Quotes By Lawrence Welk

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.

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

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

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

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

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

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

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

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.

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.

If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.

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

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

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.

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

Sounds always fascinated me.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.

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

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