Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
~By Alan Parsons ~
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
~By Sara Paretsky ~
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
~By James Marsters ~
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
~By Terri Windling ~
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.
~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.
~By Bob Verdi ~
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
~By Angela Carter ~
Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.
~By Peter Abrahams ~
Music is the strongest form of magic.
~By Marilyn Manson ~
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
~By Humphrey Carpenter ~
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
~By Tanith Lee ~
You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.
~By Patrick Swayze ~
Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.
~By Ron Taffel ~
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
~By Keith Haring ~
When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly.
~By John O'Toole ~
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
~By Daniel Burnham ~
They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic.
~By C. Kilmer Myers ~
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
~By Raymond Queneau ~
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
~By Ben Okri ~
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.
~By John Hench ~
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
I really don't believe in magic.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
~By Maya Lin ~
The world is its own magic.
~By Shunryu Suzuki ~
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
~By Danielle Steel ~
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
~By John Mortimer ~
I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.
~By John Sexton ~
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
~By James Broughton ~
The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.
~By Camilla Belle ~
What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
~By William Bernbach ~
There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.
~By Bill Toomey ~
Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.
~By Kristen Bell ~
That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
~By Johnny Mercer ~
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
~By Charles Manson ~
I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.
~By Gene Wilder ~
Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
~By Lance Burton ~
After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.
~By Rupert Grint ~
Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.
~By Andy Dick ~
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
~By Peggy Noonan ~
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
~By Boyd Rice ~
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
~By Charles Morgan ~
In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.
~By Danny DeVito ~
Nature is a petrified magic city.
~By Novalis ~
There is something else at work here that is beyond me - and that is Laura. She has a life of her own. There is a magic in her. The muse is in her. And I'm lucky to have her in my life.
~By Genie Francis ~
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
~By Bill McCartney ~
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
~By Billy Joel ~
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.
~By Eliza Cook ~
There's only one word for that - magic darts!
~By Sid Waddell ~
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
~By Thomas Mann ~
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.
~By Robert Barnes ~
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~By W. H. Murray ~
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.
~By Anthony Hopkins ~
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
~By Duane Michals ~
And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
~By Dar Williams ~
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
~By Ida Rentoul Outhwaite ~
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
~By Colin Powell ~
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
~By Herman Hesse ~
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.
~By Robin Gibb ~
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
~By Martha Graham ~
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
~By Paul Daniels ~
But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
~By Bob Balaban ~
Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.
~By Ellen Muth ~
It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.
~By Greg Rusedski ~
I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
~By Natalie Wood ~
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~By John Quincy Adams ~
Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
~By Rick Springfield ~
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
~By Mohammed Reza Pahlavi ~
There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
~By Brian May ~
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
~By Terry Brooks ~
If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
~By Gavin Rossdale ~
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
~By Anais Nin ~
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
~By Oscar Robertson ~
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
~By Ben Okri ~
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