the landscape of their art form, they’re not really
appreciated. A lot of people go against them, and
try to detract their success, because of their own
envy and jealousy.
When somebody’s dead, you kind of bury that
hatchet, and then it’s somewhat fashionable to
say positive things about somebody. Ultimately
though, I don’t work for magicians. Magicians will
never fill my theatre for three days and I play for
about 600,000 people a year! That’s live alone, in
one venue. That’s not including my touring stuff,
I have a show in December for 15,000 people
in Chile, and that’s not including the amount of
people that watch me on television. My Mindfreak
show alone had 100 million people per season.
What matters to me, is that I‘m true to myself, and
I’ve done and have been the best that I can be as
a human being, and as an artist. If magicians don’t
want to acknowledge that, that’s their prerogative.
Everybody has the freewill to think what they will,
to say what they want, but at the end of the day,
my success is my happiness. Me living and being
successful at what I do, and being happy at doing
what I do is all the matters, because no magician,
no person is ever going to affect my life. I’m still
gonna live where I live, I’m still gonna make the
hundreds of millions of dollars that I’ve made, I’m
still gonna do what I love to do, and at the end of
the day, none of that stuff matters. What matters,
is really what my son thinks of me, what my family
thinks of me, what my friends think of me, and
what the people that are close to me think of me,
because magicians … they don’t know who I am.
I wish all of the magicians that are reading this
right now, the sincere best to reach their goals and
dreams, and to not spend their time negatively.
To be positive, to be the best you can be, to reach
your goal, your dream and to have what you want
out of life.
David:
Criss Angel, on behalf of all the readers of Vanish
Magazine, thank you.
Criss:
My pleasure, and I just want to say that I did this
interview because I appreciate what VANISH is
doing for the future of magic. What I appreciate is
that you embrace technology, that you embrace
the young people that can communicate with you
in that fashion. You’re about tomorrow, and I love
magic. I want magic to thrive because it’s been
such a blessing to me and to so many people that
I know that have been affected because of the art
of magic, in such a profound way. I want magic
to thrive in a way that it has never done before,
and its gonna take a publication like yours to be
able to bring magic into the future, because you
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