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Lawrence Welk
American
Musician
About the author
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,
American
Musician
#Country
#First
#Parents
There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Biography
Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Right
#Now
You know, it's a long world.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#World
Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Love
#God
#People
#Trust
Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Practice
#Succeed
#Order
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Conversation
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Home
#Music
#Joy
Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Life
#God
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Time
#Dancing
#Evening
#Depression
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,
American
Musician
#Will
#Strength
#Money
#Faith
#Job
If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Play
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#People
#Years
#Family
#Music
#Business
If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Trouble
#Trying
#Sound
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,
American
Musician
#Will
#Desire
#Improvement
His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#May
#Act
If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Love
#Planning
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Life
#Brothers
#Father
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,
American
Musician
#Successful
#Being
I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Genius
I just had an idea that went right over my head.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Right
#Idea
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,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Life
#People
#Nothing
#Crowds
I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Words
#Forget
#Wrong
The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Time
#Successful
#First
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Family
#Father
Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Night
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Daughters
#Ambition
#Mothers
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Time
#Music
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Famous
Sounds always fascinated me.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Dreams
#English
#Education
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Years
#Nation
#Girls
#Sisters
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
Lawrence Welk,
American
Musician
#Music