Quotes from Lawrence Welk

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

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

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

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

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

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.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

You know, it's a long world.