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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my flowers while I'm alive.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.
- Dancing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be very strong to play my music. The drummer has to be in great shape. Same with the guitarist. You have to be a monster to play with Chubby!
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you throw your hands up in the air like you just don't care, you're doing 'The Fly' by Chubby Checker!
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in South Carolina. On my dad's farm, I didn't have much. I'm just a poor kid who worked in a produce market.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michael Jackson is the most awesome person who ever walked onstage. He was just incredible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't do the Macarena together. Or if they do, they do it to get closer, to get together. It's the same thing with the Electric Slide.
- Invasion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'
- Position
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't get the airplay that one in my position deserves. 'Twist and Shout' gets more airplay than 'The Twist,' and that's not right.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you go to gym and exercise to music? Before Chubby Checker, that never happened.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in a crazy business. The music industry is really tough, and I fight for my life. I just want to make everybody happy.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to play main rooms in Vegas. I want to play every day like Elvis did, not just weekends.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I play in Atlantic City, I perform Tuesdays through Sundays for two weeks, and I have 91-percent attendance. No one else plays six days a week, two shows per night, and does that kind of business.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 17 or 18 when 'The Twist' came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.
- Grade
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 11th grade, I was in show business as a professional.
- Chubby
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chubby Checker changed the dance floor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hear 'The Twist,' sometimes I hear it, and I go, 'Wow - I really did that song. It could have been anybody, but it was me. Isn't that great.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go on stage, I'm a different man. I become Chubby Checker, And when I'm not Chubby Checker, I'm preparing to be him.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only difference between The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, and Chubby Checker is that they get their music played on the radio.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.
- Food Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love food, and the food industry is huge, and I just love dealing in it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is my greatest regret - that my music is not being played, and more people aren't seeing Chubby Checker. That's very painful for me. Many nights, I have tears in my eyes about that.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020