Quotes from Dick Clark

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

Music is the soundtrack of our lives.

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

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

Bandstand dancers attempt, in vain, to get a boogie going to Frankie Laine's Western-themed "Rango.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

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

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

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

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

Jet lag is for amateurs.

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

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.