Chubby Checker Quotes

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

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.

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.

The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

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

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

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

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.

Elvis, you're still King.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.