15 Ed Sullivan Quotes for You to Enjoy

I would watch 'The Ed Sullivan Show' and borrow a few lines here and there from guests like Red Buttons and Buddy Hackett to create a routine. Then I started getting invited to do political functions like the governor's birthday ball or mayor's dinner. Norm Crosby

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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

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I had done about 60 television shows, from 'Ed Sullivan' to 'The Hollywood Palace,' before I ever went to 'Johnny Carson.' At the time, that was the showcase for comics. And I couldn't believe it. Albert Brooks

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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

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When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product. Itzhak Perlman

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

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I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by. Sandra Cisneros

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I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right. Scott McKenzie

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I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them on his television show. Sid Bernstein

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When the Beatles were on 'Ed Sullivan,' life went from black and white to color like in 'The Wizard of Oz' - and the irony I'm in the band Toto is not lost on me. Steve Lukather

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My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing 'Don't Be Cruel,' I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn't know what it was at the time. Suzi Quatro

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