Best 32 quotes of Lawrence Welk on MyQuotes

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

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

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

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

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

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

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

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

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

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.

Sounds always fascinated me.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

You know, it's a long world.

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.