Top 35 Lawrence Welk Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Lawrence Welk

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

— Lawrence Welk

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

— Lawrence Welk

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

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

— Lawrence Welk

6. “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.”

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7. “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

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

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9. “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

10. “Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.”

— Lawrence Welk

11. “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.”

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

— Lawrence Welk

13. “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

14. “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

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

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

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17. “You know, it’s a long world.”

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

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

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20. “Boys, if you don’t stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?”

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21. “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.”

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22. “Sounds always fascinated me.”

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23. “I like clean ladies and nice ladies.”

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

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

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26. “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.”

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27. “Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God’s plan for my life.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.”

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30. “Conversation didn’t seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.”

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

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32. “One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.”

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33. “If I live to be 90, and I’m planning to, I’ll always love performing for a live audience.”

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34. “I always worried I’d forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.”

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35. “It’s curious how we act in moments of personal despair.”

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

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37. “I just wrote a book, but don’t go out and buy it yet, because I don’t think it’s finished yet.”

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38. “We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.”

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