Dave Clark Quotes

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Though rock is not the force that it once was in America, it still has a loyal fan base that always seems to continue regardless of what popular culture deems as the 'cool thing.'

There's everybody in the world who is always trying, time and time again, to proclaim the death of rock, or hard rock and heavy metal. Not if I have anything to do with it, not if we have anything to do with it.

I think rock 'n' roll, in a way, has been dead for a long time.

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.