Chubby Checker Quotes

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.
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Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.
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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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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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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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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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My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.
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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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When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.
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