Words matter. These are the best Dick Clark Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s real good to be back with you again this year.
Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes – that still continues today.
Well, I’m using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That’s life!
Music is the soundtrack of your life.
I was roundly criticized for being in and around rock & roll music at its inception. It was the devil’s music: it would make your teeth fall out and your hair turn blue, whatever the hell. You get through that.
I love what I do. I love the invigoration of doing things I haven’t done before.
In Presley’s time, you didn’t dare not to be a fan of his, because you were part of a club. Now you can say I prefer Billy Joel or Tina Turner or someone else. It’s all fractionalized.
I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I’ve been truly blessed.
I adhere to my exercise program, which is about 20 minutes a day. I do it seven days a week. I have a little stall in the breezeway of our garage where I have a walking machine, a stair climber, and I do 15 pound weights, and I watch television. Because I hate exercise.
Two-thirds of people with diabetes don’t realize the seriousness that it can cause their hearts. They don’t realize they can have a stroke, drop dead of a heart attack. So you’ve got to get this thing under control.
I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.
I played records, the kids danced, and America watched.
I’m always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don’t know what they are.
Now that we’ve got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.
I’ve never relegated the lip-synch to a lower form of entertainment. Lip-synching is an art unto itself. A lot of people can’t do it.
It can be embarrassing. People come up to me and say, ‘I love your show,’ and I have no idea which one they’re talking about.
My father said to me at one time, ‘If you are still a disc jockey by the time you are 30, you better find another line of work.’ Little does he realize, I am in my 70s, and I still do seven or eight hours of radio every day – or every week.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
I keep everything. It’s one of my problems. I’m a saver.
