Quotes by Lawrence Welk - Page 1

Sounds always fascinated me.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Fascinated
Sound
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You know, it's a long world.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Bad Day
Long
World
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I like clean ladies and nice ladies.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Women
Clean
Nice
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His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Slow
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This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Biography
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I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Creative
Creative Genius
Genius
Innovators
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It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Curious
Despair
Moments
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If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Hum
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Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Minute
Whenever
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Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Famous
Dukes
Originals
Patterns
Original
Duke
Harmonic
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Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Music
Home
Joy
Secure
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There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Good
Bad Day
Funny Life
Good Day
Bad
Good Bad Days
Bad Days
Them
Days
Good Bad Bad Days
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Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Boys
Sticks
Together
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Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
God's Plan
Ifs
Plans
Life God My Life
Carrying
Plan
Wondered
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I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Fairs
Spaniards
German
Spanish
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One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Daughter
Inspiring
Ambition
Mothers Day
Overpowering
Daughters
Mothers
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The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Champagne
Hotel
Pittsburgh
William
Penn
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Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Chill
Night
Spine
Up And Down
Chills
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Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
God
Love
Trust
God Love
People
Love Trust Your
Love God Your
Anyone
Only
Never
Full
Put
Your
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I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Brother
Farmers
Father
Orderly
Pleasant
Brothers
Seemed
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If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Audience
Performing
Planning
Live Audience
Love Live Always
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Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Thanksgiving
Blessing
Lasts
Years
Life Better My Life
Blessings
Year
Each
Each Year
Grown
Over
Last
Marvel
My Life
Than
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I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Book
Finished
Thinking
Buy
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The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
First Time
Successful
Slowly
Invariably
Tend
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One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Music
Champagne
Makers
One Time
Orchestra
Shampoo
Introduced
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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Business
Music Business
People
Years
Celebrated
Family Business Music
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I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Forget
Laughing
Lines
Worried
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Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Conversation
Down And
Talking
Accordion
Floor
Lady
Seem
Swung
Young Lady
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My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Accents
Conversation
Initiate
Talking
Terrible
Accent
Me Know Hard
Remained
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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.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Jobs
Strength
Work
Best
Faith
Money
Trying
Vigor
Best Work Strength
Job
Come
Try
Put
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We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Musical
Instrument
Organ
Pump
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Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Dream
Education
Lessons
Speak
Speak English
Lesson
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If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Quality
Attributes
Voice
Develop
Helped
Performer
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My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Firsts
Successful
Trying
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When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Country
Dakota
Harsh
North Dakota
Parent
Unions
Admitted
Arrived
Wild
North
Union
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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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Desire
Improvement
Kind
Any
Grow
Tremendous
Develop
Whatever
Learn
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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.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Anxious
Appearing
Band
Order
Practice
Succeed
Disc
Jockey
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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.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Girl
Sister
Four
Lennon
Listeners
Years
Sisters
Early Years
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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.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Crowds
Musician
Real Life
Standing
Life Great Myself
Accordion
Front
Seemed
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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.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Depression
Dancing
Evening
Folks
Hungry
Spite
Way
Time Good Way
Time Good Evening
Good Time
Seemed
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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.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Music
Hospitality
Pittsburgh
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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.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Harder
Nice
Pitfalls
Successful
Failed
Realized
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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.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Musician
People
Real
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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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Able
Joy
Use
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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.
Lawrence Welk / Musician
Bottles
Champagne
Cork
Exploding
Popping
Problem
Sound
Trouble
Trying
Bottle
Finger
Mouth
Solved
Sticking
While
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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.
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Father
Musical
Pumps
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