Lawrence Welk Quotes
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You know, it's a long world.
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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.
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Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
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My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
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I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
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This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
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Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
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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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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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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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Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.
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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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Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
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We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.