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

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

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
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

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

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

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
Lawrence Welk

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

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.
Lawrence Welk

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.
Lawrence Welk

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

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

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

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