Words matter. These are the best Lawrence Welk Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
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.
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh… was the place where Champagne Music was born.
Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
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.
Sounds always fascinated me.
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn’t know.
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.
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
You know, it’s a long world.
It’s curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn’t speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
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.
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
Conversation didn’t seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
I always worried I’d forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
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.
