Quotes About Performing Magic

#1. I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

Ricky Jay

#2. Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

Grant Morrison

#3. Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.

C.C. Wyatt

#4. And at the end of his letter one terrible sentence.
'If I loved you I would have written differently.

Alice Munro

#5. We commonly see things 'out there' and go after them. Our mind is thus characterised by division and separation.

Steve Hagen

#6. I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.

Nick Offerman

#7. If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

Jean Hugard

#8. I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.

Matt McGorry

#9. My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

Roberto Aguire

#10. Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

Alex Ferguson

#12. Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when he embraces the Sabbath bride. I see western swing performing a similar function in hardscrabble Texas, turning dirt-poor hired hands into Dapper Dans with magic feet at the Saturday night hoe-down.

Clive Sinclair

#13. Magic is really performing special effects live.

Michael Carbonaro

#14. The future is the worst thing about the present.

Gustave Flaubert

#15. When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.

Frederick Lenz

#16. The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

Laozi

#17. It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life.

Patti Smith

#18. I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

Philippe Petit

#19. The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

Penn Jillette