Marilyn Manson Quotes

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

~ Marilyn Manson

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

~ Marilyn Manson

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level.

~ Marilyn Manson

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

~ Marilyn Manson

We don't like to kill our unborn, we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

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Music is the strongest form of magic.

~ Marilyn Manson

My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.

~ Marilyn Manson

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

~ Marilyn Manson

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

~ Marilyn Manson

Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.

~ Marilyn Manson

Our relationship, however, soon went awry. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that wil shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.

~ Marilyn Manson

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

~ Marilyn Manson

The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.

~ Marilyn Manson

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

~ Marilyn Manson

The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world.

~ Marilyn Manson

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

~ Marilyn Manson

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

~ Marilyn Manson

I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.

~ Marilyn Manson

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.

~ Marilyn Manson

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

~ Marilyn Manson

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

~ Marilyn Manson

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

~ Marilyn Manson

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

~ Marilyn Manson

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

~ Marilyn Manson

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

~ Marilyn Manson

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

~ Marilyn Manson

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

~ Marilyn Manson

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

~ Marilyn Manson

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

~ Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

~ Marilyn Manson

Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

~ Marilyn Manson

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

~ Marilyn Manson

Watching movies is my one distraction.

~ Marilyn Manson

When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.

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I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

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Marriage changes everything.

~ Marilyn Manson

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

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I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

~ Marilyn Manson

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

~ Marilyn Manson

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

~ Marilyn Manson