Lawrence Welk Quotes

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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 -…
• 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.
• I like clean ladies and nice ladies.
• Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
• I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
• Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
• Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
• Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
• 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…
• 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…
• I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
• One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
• 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.
• By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
• Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
• I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
• I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
• 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…
• 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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