Top 47 Quotes & Sayings by Lawrence Welk

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Lawrence Welk was an American accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted the television program The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large audience of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music".

American - Musician | March 11, 1903 - May 17, 1992

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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You know, it's a long world.

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

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

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Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Sounds always fascinated me.

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

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I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

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If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

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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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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.

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Top 47 Quotes & Sayings by Lawrence Welk

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