Chubby Checker
Musician
1941-10-03
Chubby Checker is an American singer and dancer best known for popularizing The Twist. He became a major figure in early 1960s rock and roll dance culture.
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Quotes by Chubby Checker
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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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Alexander Graham Bell brought us the telephone. He owns the telephones in the buildings. Thomas Edison owns the lightbulb. Whether they took it and did things to improve it, he's the guy. Now on the dance floor, that belongs to Chubby Checker.
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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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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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I want to play main rooms in Vegas. I want to play every day like Elvis did, not just weekends.
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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.'
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