One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. – Lawrence Welk
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument. – Lawrence Welk
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh… was the place where Champagne Music was born. – Lawrence Welk
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure. – Lawrence Welk
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart