Quotes By Lawrence Welk
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
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
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
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
The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
Lawrence Welk
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
Lawrence Welk
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
Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
Lawrence Welk
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
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
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
I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
Lawrence Welk
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
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
If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.
Lawrence Welk
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
Lawrence Welk
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
If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.
Lawrence Welk