Chubby Checker Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different.

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

The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips

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

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

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

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

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

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

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.

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

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.

You wave your hands up to the sky, kick your legs to the side. Are you ready, let's do the Freddie.

Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.

When the baby is older take the diapers off, my girl is gonna do the Slop.

Every limbo boy and girl, all around the limbo world. Gonna do the limbo rock, all around the limbo clock.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.

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

I've got a girl that I love so, hey Loddy Loddy Lo.

Hooka Tooka, my soda cracker, does your momma chaw tobacca?

Elvis, you're still King.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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