Drummond Money-Coutts Quotes

Magic is really performing special effects live.

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.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

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.

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

In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.

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

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

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.

I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.

What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's planted in psychological techniques.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

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 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.

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.

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.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.

There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.