Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

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
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
Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk
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
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
Lawrence Welk

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk
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
Lawrence Welk

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

Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

Lawrence Welk
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
Lawrence Welk

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.