Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Dick Clark

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American entertainer Dick Clark.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Richard Wagstaff Clark was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989. He also hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from 1973 to 1988 and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which transmitted New Year's Eve celebrations in New York City's Times Square.

American - Entertainer | November 30, 1929 - April 18, 2012

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I played records, the kids danced, and America watched.

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I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.

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Music is the soundtrack of your life.

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I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I could never turn to a guy and a girl and ask, 'Are you going steady?' That was absolutely a no-no - it was the Eisenhower period, and no parent wanted their kid going steady, so it wasn't a thing that you could endorse as proper behavior on the air.

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It's real good to be back with you again this year.

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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.

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We don't compete with the Grammys. The Grammys compete with us. They have taken the stance that anybody who performs on 'The American Music Awards' cannot appear on 'The Grammys.' I don't agree with that philosophy.

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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.

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I love what I do. I love the invigoration of doing things I haven't done before.

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Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.

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Personally, I'd like to visit every corner of the earth. But I don't know as I'll ever be able to accomplish that.

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Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find out that white kids liked black music. It was a very significant period of time before I got there.

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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.

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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

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First job I had, I was 17 years old. I was primarily the mail room boy at the radio station. An FM station. And in those days, nobody listened to FM.

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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.

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Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

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The Prince interview was a failure. Huge, but most memorable 'cause he didn't say anything.

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If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

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I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

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Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.

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I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.

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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.

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The problem is when you try to impose today's standards on people living back then. It's the politically correct thing to do, but it was a different era, a different country then.

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Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.

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I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

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I don't make culture. I sell it.

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It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.

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Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

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Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.

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If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. If that idea fails, have another one It doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of hard work.

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The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

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Jet lag is for amateurs.

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The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.

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