Quotes by Lawrence Welk

About Lawrence Welk:

Lawrence Welk was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans (and critics) as "champagne music".
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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 Welk

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

Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

Lawrence Welk

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

Lawrence Welk

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 Welk

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.

Lawrence Welk

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 Welk

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.

Lawrence Welk

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk

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.

Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk

Author Bio

  • NameLawrence Welk
  • DescriptionAmerican musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario
  • BornNovember 3, 1903
  • DiedMay 17, 1992
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMusician; Accordionist; Bandleader; Impresario; Conductor