A biography for Lawrence Welkhasn’t been written yet.
“I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.”
“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.”
“The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.”
“We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.”
“If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.”
“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.”
“If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.”
“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.”
“I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.”
“I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.”
“If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.”
“Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.”
“Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.”
“Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.”
“The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.”
“It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.”
“I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.”
“Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.”
“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.”
“I just had an idea that went right over my head.”