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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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