Quotes by Chubby Checker

About Chubby Checker:

Chubby Checker is an American singer-songwriter. He is widely known for popularizing the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit "The Twist". In September 2008 "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958, an honor it maintained for an August 2013 update of the list. He also popularized the Limbo Rock and its trademark limbo dance, as well as various dance styles such as the fly.
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What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

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Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

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Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

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God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

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Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

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Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.

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Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're making billions doing my dances. When they do that little thing they do with their hands that's The Fly and The Pony.

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Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

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I want my flowers while I'm alive.

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I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.

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When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

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Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.

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I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.

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I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

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It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

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Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

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My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

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Author Bio

  • NameChubby Checker
  • DescriptionSinger
  • BornOctober 3, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger