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Jet lag is for amateurs.
I don't make culture. I sell it.
Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.
I played records, the kids danced, and America watched.
I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.
I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.
The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.
I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.
If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.
I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.
Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.
I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.
The Prince interview was a failure. Huge, but most memorable 'cause he didn't say anything.
Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.
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.
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.
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.
Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.