Author Profile
Dick Clark
1929 – 2012 • American • Entertainer
28
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 28 quotesI 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
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
The Prince interview was a failure. Huge, but most memorable 'cause he didn't say anything.— Dick Clark
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
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
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
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
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
Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!— Dick Clark
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
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
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