Lawrence Welk Quotes

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Blessing, Years, Lasts

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Funny Life, Good Day, Bad Day

  "Emmy, Vol. 9", published by Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, 1987.

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Love, Trust, God

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• 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

  Desire, Improvement, Kind

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• 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

  Dream, Speak English, Lessons

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Orchestra, Shampoo

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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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

  Jobs, Work, Trying

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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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 - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

  Lawrence Welk

  Joy, Use, Able

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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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.

  Lawrence Welk

  Country, Parent, Unions

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?

  Lawrence Welk

  Boys, Together, Sticks

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• We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.

  Lawrence Welk

  Father, Musical, Pumps

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Talking, Down And, Conversation

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Biographies

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Brother, Father, Farmers

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Despair, Moments, Curious

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• 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

  Trying, Sound, Bottles

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• On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Pittsburgh, Hospitality

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Talking, Accents, Conversation

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• My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

  Lawrence Welk

  Successful, Trying, Firsts

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Planning, Performing, Audience

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

  Lawrence Welk

  Laughing, Lines, Forget

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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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.

  Lawrence Welk

  Sister, Girl, Years

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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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.

  Lawrence Welk

  Dancing, Way, Evening

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• 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

  Book, Thinking, Finished

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

  Lawrence Welk

  God's Plan, Plans, Ifs

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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