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.”

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

“It's real good to be back with you again this year.”

“The Prince interview was a failure. Huge, but most memorable 'cause he didn't say anything.”

“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.”

“I love what I do. I love the invigoration of doing things I haven't done before.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Music is the soundtrack of our lives.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”