Best Ed Sullivan Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I did not listen to the Beatles or watch Ed Sullivan on TV. I wasn't interested in fun or popularity back then.”

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

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

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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.”

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Author:Moms Mabley

“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.”

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Author:Jeffrey Tambor

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

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Author:Dan Fogelberg

“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!”

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Author:George Thorogood

“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.”

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Author:Brian Henson

“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.”

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Author:David Copperfield

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

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Author:Alan King

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

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Author:Elvis Presley

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

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Author:Aretha Franklin

“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.”

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Author:Tom Petty

“... 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.”

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Author:Jerry Garcia

“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.”

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

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Author:Al Sharpton

“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.”

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Author:John Lahr

“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.”

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Author:George Harrison

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

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Author:Katherine Dunham

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