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" By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. "
People
Years
Business
" Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor. "
Floor
Conversation
Lady
" Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education. "
Speak
True
Dreams
" Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. "
Patterns
Very
Duke
" 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. "
Trying
Trouble
Sound
" His act may start out slow, but it tapers off. "
Out
Slow
Start
" I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places. "
Say
Audience
Forget
" I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. "
Father
Farmer
Like
" If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes. "
Always
Quality
Voice
" If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience. "
Planning
Always
Love
" If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us. "
Play
Hum
After
" If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come. "
Work
Money
Strength
" 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. "
Learn
Grow
Me
" I have never been an innovator, a creative genius. "
Innovator
Creative
Genius
" I just had an idea that went right over my head. "
Just
Right
Head
" I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet. "
Go
Because
Book
" 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. "
Great
Nothing
People
" 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. "
Time
Dancing
Depression
" I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German. "
German
About
Spanish
" 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. "
Successful
Just
Much
" It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair. "
Personal
Act
Curious
" I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band. "
Order
Band
Made
" Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life. "
My Life
Out
God
" Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure. "
Happy
Home
Music
" My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know. "
Me
Hard
Know
" Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God. "
God Love
People
Only
" Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well. "
Feel
Go
Night
" One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. "
Ambition
One Thing
Stage
" One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. "
Champagne
Time
Orchestra
" Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last. "
Thanksgiving
Life
Blessings
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