60 Bonzer Quotes By - Dave Clark | Status Free Download
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60 Bonzer Quotes By - Dave Clark | WhatsApp Status Free Download
Success doesn't scare us. I think we have staying power.
— Dave Clark
We copied our hairstyle from Prince Charles, not the Beatles.
— Dave Clark
We have our hair cut, but the idea is to look like we didn't.
— Dave Clark
After two world tours where we played every state but Greenland, I only saw the inside of a hotel. I wouldn't have missed it for the world, but it did get tiring.
— Dave Clark
You hear many things, take a little from each experience, and tune your imagination to create believable characters and situations.
— Dave Clark
I wanted to stop while we were still getting big hits. The only thing I miss is the actual performing.
— Dave Clark
I was raised Church of England but I love the Buddhist philosophy, it's very powerful, non-violent.
— Dave Clark
People make assumptions when you're not married. I've been best man at five weddings and I said I'd never do it again 'cos everyone got divorced.
— Dave Clark
I never professed to be a great drummer but I was a very heavy drummer.
— Dave Clark
Anyone can look good if you have 500-flash bulbs exploding in your face.
— Dave Clark
Nobody thought that the music boom of the Sixties was going to last.
— Dave Clark
We couldn't get enough of American rock 'n' roll. We'd hear it when we played American air bases in the U.K.
— Dave Clark
I never wanted to do a documentary or write a book.
— Dave Clark
Not that we've got anything against America, mind. But let's face it, you make a lousy cup of tea over here.
— Dave Clark
You can't recreate the '60s.
— Dave Clark
You can't go on being a 19-year-old rock-and-roller all your life.
— Dave Clark
There will never be another Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock and roll singers.
— Dave Clark
I always believed that the bubble could burst tomorrow. You're only as good as your last record.
— Dave Clark
It was always the singer that was the front man, but Mike stood there and played piano and keyboards. He had a great voice and he was the Sixties' Rod Stewart, and he contributed a tremendous amount to the Dave Clark Five.
— Dave Clark
I was at a party in Alexandra Palace tobogganing on the ski slope, got whiplashed at 40mph, put my hands out to balance myself, and three fingers got caught in the artificial snow. I broke four knuckles. I have not drummed since.
— Dave Clark
Elvis Presley invited me to Las Vegas for one night but we got on so well that I stayed for three.
— Dave Clark
They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. Well I remember the '60s, I was there and I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
— Dave Clark
The Dave Clark Five was basically a live band. During '63 we got the Gold Cup for being the best live band in Britain.
— Dave Clark
My big thrill in life is my Jaguar XKE.
— Dave Clark
What makes it all worth-while is what I've been able to do for my parents. They were poor and worked all their lives. Like all boys in London, I dreamed of winning the football pool and doing for them. Well, this is better than any football pool. Now they don't have to work. I've given them a nice home and a car. It's a good feeling.
— Dave Clark
We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the groups.
— Dave Clark
I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.
— Dave Clark
I miss physically going out on stage and performing. That's the ultimate high.
— Dave Clark
I bought the rights to 'Ready, Steady, Go!' several years ago because I didn't want the segments to be chopped up and sold off. I thought the shows should be left intact.
— Dave Clark
Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.
— Dave Clark
I date fairly often, but my work is much more important.
— Dave Clark
Ready, Steady, Go!' was the show of the '60s in London, where the Beatles, the Stones and the DC5, and every other major act started.
— Dave Clark
We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted us to be the flavor of the month.
— Dave Clark
We'd play the American bases and found all these wonderful records by Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke. Without American music, there would not have been a British Invasion.
— Dave Clark
We got our grounding by playing live. You had to fall flat on your face, pay your dues and grow.
— Dave Clark
I've always had a philosophy: it doesn't matter who you love or how you love, the most important thing in life is that you love.
— Dave Clark
What I couldn't have dreamed of is that the fame would last for the rest of our lives without me having to play another note.
— Dave Clark
When you're touring, you only see the auditorium and the hotel room. You can't go out because you get mobbed. You're tired, edgy and under pressure. The fun had gone out of it, so we decided to walk away from it all.
— Dave Clark
One of the reasons I wanted a sax in the band was that I loved Fats Domino's 'Blueberry Hill.'
— Dave Clark
Freddie Mercury said years later that he got the idea for 'We Will Rock You' from 'Bits and Pieces.' I never knew that.
— Dave Clark
Our band was different. We were still playing rock 'n' roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but an organ and a saxophone.
— Dave Clark
That was the ultimate high, playing live. You feel like the Pied Piper, or a conductor, knowing how to take an audience up or bring them down.
— Dave Clark
Early CDs, I found, flattened out the sound - it took away all the highs.
— Dave Clark
People annoy me when they say, 'Oh, you made a fortune.'
— Dave Clark
I knew The Beatles before because we did our first television with them, 'Thank Your Lucky Stars.'
— Dave Clark
We were the first group where the drummer was the front man.
— Dave Clark
I don't think you'd say we'd be rivals because we've got a completely different line-up to The Beatles.
— Dave Clark
To think I thought you could lose your place in history.
— Dave Clark
When we first went to L.A., Howard Koch, who was the head of Paramount Pictures and later President of the Oscars, threw a welcome lunch for us at his house. There were all these stars there - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Lucille Ball, Natalie Wood, Henry Mancini.
— Dave Clark
I enjoyed every moment, but we'd been everywhere, done everything. I wanted to get back to being just Dave Clark, not Dave Clark Celebrity.
— Dave Clark
I own a series called 'Ready, Steady, Go!' that I bought in the Seventies. I purposely didn't do anything with it, and wouldn't sell off any clips. My accountant went crazy when I said I wanted to wait until the 20-year cycle, then put it out so the new generation could experience it.
— Dave Clark
I believe you have to be honest with yourself. If you believe that the direction you want to go is the right direction, then you should do it.
— Dave Clark
I thought I should have a Rolls, for prestige, so I ordered one. But when it came, I realized that I didn't really need it.
— Dave Clark
You've got two sets of teenagers in England - the mods and the rockers. The rockers are motorcycle addicts. The mods dress like we do. We wear four-button jackets, cuban heel boots, shirts of our own design, with high collars and a tab underneath the collar.
— Dave Clark
I love the music business, but I have no ambition to keep on playing.
— Dave Clark
I was very, very lucky to spend my youth during the '60s.
— Dave Clark
The '80s have been so much doom and gloom. We've become very pessimistic.
— Dave Clark
Rick was a real gentleman. He was very kind and had an amazing sense of humour - he was the funny one in the group, and a very talented musician.
— Dave Clark
Who wants to be a 40-year-old rock and roller? You cannot live in the past.
— Dave Clark
The '60s were a time of great optimism and hope. There was a buzz - everybody could be successful.
— Dave Clark
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