Rubbish. Nothing worse than pretending to like someone, and you can't like everyone.
How to get audiences to like you? Study your art, learn it properly, come up with a performance that does the art justice and isn't just designed to get people to like you.
Practice until it is competent and present it with a view to helping the reputation of magic, not your own.
Yet still everybody wont like you but that's life. At least you haven't prostituted a few simple secrets for the sake of drawing attention to yourself.
.......just to add, it's the quote I hate not the performer....! Magic is just an act, we're playing a character, that's it. Some magicians play the good guys, some the bad guys, it's just an act!
They're only bleedin tricks, don't take it, or yourself too seriously!!
The quote is just a variation of the Golden Rule. Knowing Chad, the guy has such a kind and charming demeanor it's impossible NOT to like him. Plus he's a brilliant magician. I despise magicians who perform as a smart-ass with a 'gotcha' attitude (and there are WAY too many of them) offending audiences and souring them towards magic in general. Over 100 years ago Nate Leipzig said,"People don't mind being fooled by a gentleman."
Rubbish. Nothing worse than pretending to like someone, and you can't like everyone.
ReplyDeleteHow to get audiences to like you? Study your art, learn it properly, come up with a performance that does the art justice and isn't just designed to get people to like you.
Practice until it is competent and present it with a view to helping the reputation of magic, not your own.
Yet still everybody wont like you but that's life. At least you haven't prostituted a few simple secrets for the sake of drawing attention to yourself.
Absolutely agree 100% with you on that and I hate that quote!
Delete.......just to add, it's the quote I hate not the performer....! Magic is just an act, we're playing a character, that's it. Some magicians play the good guys, some the bad guys, it's just an act!
DeleteThey're only bleedin tricks, don't take it, or yourself too seriously!!
The quote is just a variation of the Golden Rule.
ReplyDeleteKnowing Chad, the guy has such a kind and charming demeanor it's impossible NOT to like him.
Plus he's a brilliant magician.
I despise magicians who perform as a smart-ass with a 'gotcha' attitude (and there are WAY too many of them) offending audiences and souring them towards magic in general.
Over 100 years ago Nate Leipzig said,"People don't mind being fooled by a gentleman."