There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
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.
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.
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.
This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
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.
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.
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.
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.
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
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.
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
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.
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.
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