Chubby Checker

I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God. ”

Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business. ”

When I play in Atlantic City, I perform Tuesdays through Sundays for two weeks, and I have 91-percent attendance. No one else plays six days a week, two shows per night, and does that kind of business. ”

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

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

Do you go to gym and exercise to music? Before Chubby Checker, that never happened. ”

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

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. ”

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