Quotes by Dick Clark - Page 1

Jet lag is for amateurs.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Funny
Inspirational
Travel
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I don't make culture. I sell it.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Culture
Sells
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Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Music
Music Is
Rock N Roll
Soundtracks
Life Music Your
Soundtrack
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Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.
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Age
Old You
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I played records, the kids danced, and America watched.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Danced
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I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Saver
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I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Music Business
Rejects You
Survivor
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The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.
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I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Novelty
Rock N Roll
Trends
Them
Find
Set
Exploit
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The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Simple
Simplicity
Television
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If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Age
Parent
Want
Carefully
Stay
Parents
Pick
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I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Capitalist
Great Deal
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Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Computers
Pump
Uttered
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I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Always People Know
Bright
Distressed
People Always Know
Supposedly
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The Prince interview was a failure. Huge, but most memorable 'cause he didn't say anything.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Failure
Huge
Memorable
Cause
Interview
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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!
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Sitting
What If
Shot
Cane
Wheelchair
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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Boyfriend
Funny
Smile
Dad
Humor
Truth
Father
Father In Law
Heard
Based
Joke
Ever
Modicum
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Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Finding Someone
Share
Something You Love
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Accomplish
Corner
Visit
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Embarrassing
No Idea
Love Me People
Love Your Me
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Entertainment
Art People Never
Lower
Unto
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Impact
Older Generation
Generation
Hates
Huge Impact
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Dream
Accomplished
Blessed
Childhood
Lucky
Show Business
Childhood Dream
Truly
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Mail
First Job
Listened
Primarily
Radio Station
Station
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Fall
Hard Work
Ideas
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Country
People
Trying
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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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Fighting
Long
Years
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Dare
Turner
Prefer
Billy
Billy Joel
Fan
Club
Tina
Tina Turner
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Blue
Inception
Teeth
Criticized
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
American Music
Awards
Stance
Appear
Compete
Grammys
Performs
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Diabetes
Seriousness
Attack
Cause
Dead
Drop
Hearts
Realize
Stroke
Two-Thirds
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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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Artist
Generations
People
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Black Music
Bob
Buffalo
Cleveland
Dog
Philadelphia
Significant
Time Music Black
Alan
Began
Liked
Period
Freed
George
Horn
Hound
Lee
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Eight
One Time
Radio
Time Work I Am
Time Work Better
By The Time
Disc
Work Time Father
Jockey
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Air
Parent
Steady
Absolutely
Period
Eisenhower
Endorse
Proper
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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.
Dick Clark / Radio Personality
Exercise
Garage
Hate
Minutes
Program
Seven
Television
Adhere
Days
Climber
Watch
Weights
Pound
Stall
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