Lawrence Welk Quotes
Top 42 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Lawrence Welk on Wise Famous Quotes.
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.