Quotes by Chubby Checker

“Im just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. Im just the guy who makes happy.”

“My stage performance is all I got going for me and believe me I perfected it to an art. Thats why Im still singing in the business because of my stage performance-its exquisite. It is Picasso. It is Rembrandt.”

“Gods got something for me. I have faith itll be OK.”

“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, Id like to be doing what Im doing and collecting more interest.”

“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. Its just an amazing thing. I cant explain it, but I hope it never stops.”

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

“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.”

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

“Homey dont quit. What else are you gonna do? Its like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after its over they check the clock and go home. Thats how it goes.”

“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.”

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

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

“When Im onstage they know Im honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.”

“I want my flowers while Im alive.”

“Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? Im the same way.”

“Besides, at 62 years old I look like Im about 27.”

“My outlet is my music, and its been this way since I was 4 years old.”

“Here I am the best batting average in the music industry and Im a bye word in the industry. I really am. Compared to Rod Stewart, I mean, Rod Stewart big deal. I mean, I know hes good and everything, but I played a show two years ago and I had to star under Eddie Money.”

“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 ones ever done that.”

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.