“If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be help...” — Lawrence Welk Quote

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

“This is the best biography by me I have ever read.”

“When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.”

“My job is the same if I'm making a new musical or making a play for sixty-five people or doing a live television broadcast. The job is to take care of the actor; the job is to create an environment where they can excel and try to access all their attributes.”

“I don't think I was a naturally born talent, surely I had some natural attributes, which perhaps helped me in my sport, but generally speaking I wasn't competitive in nature.”

“Knowledge, information, wit, and the way you disseminate these attributes can often prove to be a more disarming weapon against an enemy or some with whom your ideology is in conflict, than violence or lethal weapons.”