Andy Grammer Quotes

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

The problem with stage magic is that it looks really good, but everyone knows there's a trick box.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people.

All magic is 'Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over.'

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.

Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.

I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.

I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.