Lawrence Welk
Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.Collection: Thanksgiving
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.Collection: Strength
There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.Collection: Good
Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.Collection: Trust
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.Collection: Famous
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.Collection: Dreams
Sounds always fascinated me.
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.
I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.
This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
You know, it's a long world.
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
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.
Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
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.
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.
If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
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.
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
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.
If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.
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 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.
I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
I just had an idea that went right over my head.
To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.Collection: Joy
Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?Collection: Boys
We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.Collection: Father
On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.Collection: Music
My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.Collection: Successful
I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.Collection: Real
I like clean ladies and nice ladies.Collection: Nice