Dick Clark Quotes

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 your life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I don't make culture. I sell it.

Jet lag is for amateurs.

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

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