Ed Sullivan Quotes

• Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Long

  "The guy who brought The Beatles to America" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2014.

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• I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

  Elvis Presley

  Four, Jackie, Shows

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• I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

  Katherine Dunham

  Song, Thinking

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• I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

  Al Sharpton

  Holiday, Black, Goes On

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• I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

  George Harrison

  Criminals, Crime, Minutes

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• Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

  Alan King

  Firsts, Tvs, Program

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• When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

  John Lahr

  Media, Delight, Notorious

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• Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Band

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• More than any other drummer, Ringo Starr changed my life. The impact and memory of that band on Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 will never leave me. I can still see Ringo in the back moving that beat with his whole body, his right hand swinging off his sock cymbal while his left hand pounds the snare. He was fantastic, but I think what got to me the most was his smile. I knew he was having the time of his life.

  Max Weinberg

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• ... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

  Jerry Garcia

  Music, Fun, Thinking

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• And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

  Aretha Franklin

  Doors, Goes On, Cry

  "New again: Aretha Franklin". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2012.

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• Everything that you'd see on The Ed Sullivan Show was at the Tannen's Magic. You'd think that if you could afford a trick like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, then you could be on The Ed Sullivan Show as an 8-year-old kid.

  David Copperfield

  Kids, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.

  Brian Henson

  Mom, Dad, Night

  Source: bigthink.com

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• After the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964, at approx. 8:04pm [laughs], after that moment every album, every guitar, evey set of drums that was ever sold ... 10% should have gone right into their pocket!

  George Thorogood

  Guitar, Should Have, Laughing

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• [On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

  Moms Mabley

  Mom, Four, Honey

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• Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.

  Tom Petty

  Real, Men, Magic

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• You push a button and it goes all over the world and on Sunday people are saying, 'Oh, I binge watched all 10 of them. Where's more?' and you go oh, the world has changed. It's not my dad walking to the television set and turning a knob to Ed Sullivan.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Dad, Sunday, People

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