Lawrence Welk Quotes

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

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• You know, it’s a long world.

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

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

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

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

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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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• Sounds always fascinated me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Birth:	11th March, 1903
Death:	17th May, 1992
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician

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