Lawrence Welk

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

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

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

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

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