Penn Jillette Quotes About Magic
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There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
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In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.
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If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
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One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.
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Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.
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I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
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I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.
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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.
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Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.
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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.
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For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
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Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
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