Lawrence Welk Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

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

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#7. 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.

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

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

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

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#11. 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.

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

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

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#14. You know, it's a long world.

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

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

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

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#18. We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

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#19. I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

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

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

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

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

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#24. Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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

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#28. 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.

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

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

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#31. I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

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

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#33. Sounds always fascinated me.

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#34. 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.

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

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#36. His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

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#37. 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.

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

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#39. Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.

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#40. 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.

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#41. I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

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

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#43. The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

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#44. 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.

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