Lawrence Welk Quotations

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

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

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.

You know, it's a long world.

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

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

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

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