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Quotes by Chubby Checker

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.
– Chubby Checker
Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.
– Chubby Checker
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.
– Chubby Checker
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.
– Chubby Checker
Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.
– Chubby Checker
Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.
– Chubby Checker
God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.
– Chubby Checker
Here I am the best batting average in the music industry and I'm a bye word in the industry. I really am. Compared to Rod Stewart, I mean, Rod Stewart big deal. I mean, I know he's good and everything, but I played a show two years ago and I had to star under Eddie Money.
– Chubby Checker
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.
– Chubby Checker
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.
– Chubby Checker
I want my flowers while I'm alive.
– Chubby Checker
I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!
– Chubby Checker
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.
– Chubby Checker
I'm on limited rotation and the only difference is Elvis gets his music played across the board. Chubby is only on oldies radio and I'm on limited rotation, but the Beatles get their music played across the board in all formats.
– Chubby Checker
I'm so programmed on oldies stations that I have no young fans. The Beatles have young fans. The Beach Boys have young fans.
– Chubby Checker
I'm the badest redneck you ever seen. I do better than the country singers. I'm so awesome singing country. I can twang better than any white boy and I'm good at it.
– Chubby Checker
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.
– Chubby Checker
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.
– Chubby Checker
My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.
– Chubby Checker
My own life planning has always been 10 years ahead. I knew when I was 13 that this was what I wanted to be. Right now I feel about nine months behind where I would have liked to be at age 46. Ten years from now, I'd like to be doing what I'm doing and collecting more interest.
– Chubby Checker
My stage performance is all I got going for me and believe me I perfected it to an art. That's why I'm still singing in the business because of my stage performance-it's exquisite. It is Picasso. It is Rembrandt.
– Chubby Checker
The industry makes billions as a result of my existence and I get no respect and I get no airplay. I really get treated badly in the business. I really do. I'm not whining. These are just facts that I have to live with everyday. It's not easy to go to bed every night knowing that.
– Chubby Checker
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.
– Chubby Checker
When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.
– Chubby Checker