Chubby Checker Quotes

“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.”

— Chubby Checker

“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.”

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

“I want my flowers while I'm alive.”

— Chubby Checker

“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.”

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

“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.”

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

“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.”

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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.

— Chubby Checker

“Elvis, you're still King.”

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

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

— Chubby Checker

“The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips”

— Chubby Checker

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.

— Chubby Checker