Lawrence Welk Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?

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.

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.

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

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

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

Freedom is without a doubt the greatest blessing we have in America so let us protect it and defend it with all our hearts and all our energies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.