American - Musician | March 11, 1903 - May 17, 1992
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
Lawrence Welk
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Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
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It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
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I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
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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.
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Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
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