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I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

— Chubby Daniels

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I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

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

What I bring to the stage is humility.

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house.

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

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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