Lawrence Welk quotes
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“Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.”
-- Lawrence WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
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“There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.”
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“Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.”
-- Lawrence WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct
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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 WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct
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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 WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct
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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.”
-- Lawrence WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
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“I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.”
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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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“The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.”
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“This is the best biography by me I have ever read.”
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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 WelkSource : "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".
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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 WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
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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 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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“Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.”
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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.”
-- Lawrence WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
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“One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.”
-- Lawrence WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
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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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“Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.”
-- Lawrence WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
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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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“I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.”
-- Lawrence WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct
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“One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.”
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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 WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
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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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“Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.”
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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 WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
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“I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.”
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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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“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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“If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.”
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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 WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
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“It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.”
-- Lawrence WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
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“Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.”
-- Lawrence WelkSource : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
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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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“Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?”
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