Quotes By Lawrence Welk

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 just had an idea that went right over my head.

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.

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

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

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.