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Chubby Checker
American
Musician
About the author
My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.
Chubby Checker,
American
Musician
#Years
#Old
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Time
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Enemies
When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.
Chubby Checker,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Hope
#Audiences
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,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.
Chubby Checker,
American
Musician
#Business
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.
Chubby Checker,
American
Musician
#Dancing
#Music
Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.
Chubby Checker,
American
Musician
#Talking
#Walking
Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.
Chubby Checker,
American
Musician
#Now
#World
#Hate
#Rap
God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.
Chubby Checker,
American
Musician
#God
#Faith
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,
American
Musician
#Day
#Home
#Fight
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.
Chubby Checker,
American
Musician
#Light
Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.
Chubby Checker,
American
Musician
#Years
#Old
I want my flowers while I'm alive.
Chubby Checker,
American
Musician
#Want
#Flowers
I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!
Chubby Checker,
American
Musician
#Want
#People