Marilyn Manson famous quotes

Music is the strongest form of magic.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Music #Magic #Form

It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Being Yourself #Thinking #Being Different

Seance to renaissance. So it begins
-- Marilyn Manson

#Renaissance

I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.
-- Marilyn Manson

#People #Trying #Flip

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
-- Marilyn Manson

#People

You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.
-- Marilyn Manson

#People #Want #Way

If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.
-- Marilyn Manson

#People #Interesting #Rooms

I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Sex #Thinking #Imagery

I`m not a slave to a god that doesn`t exist.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Atheist #Slave

I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. But I think when you're making something aggressive and you need to get a point across, if you're angry, sometimes profanity is necessary. It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Hurt #Thinking #Use

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Alcohol #Drug #Drugs And Alcohol

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Hero #People #Well Known

Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Cake #White #Knees

My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Mom #Kids #Thinking

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

#Love #Dream #Wish

Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Jobs #Artist #Thinking

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

#World #Morbid

I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Earth #Chaos

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Life #Should

I'm just here for the narcotics.
-- Marilyn Manson

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Political #Tragedy

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Artist #Thinking

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Art #Answers #Should

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
-- Marilyn Manson

#Children #Entertainment #Adults

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Artist #Hands #Video

You cannot sedate all the things you hate.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Hate #Alcohol #Drug

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Growing Up #War #Fighting

What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Rocks #Generations #Alive

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Black #World #Needs

The most genius ideas are in the minds of children and lunatics. I describe myself as somewhere in between.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Children #Ideas #Mind

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

#Mother #Memories #Father

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Writing #Faces #Dare

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Reality #Differences #Making A Difference

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Needs #Reason #Acknowledge

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Violence #Violent #Favourite

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Hero #Armor #Stories

Art is a big question mark.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Art #Bigs #Mark

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Real #Ships #Firsts

Better pray for hell, not hallelujah.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Praying #Hell #Hallelujah

It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.
-- Marilyn Manson

#God #Philosophy #People

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

#Growing Up #Artist #Sound

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one
-- Marilyn Manson

#Stars #Rocks #Rock Star

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Hate #Mood #Pun

If you believe in what you're doing, you're going to make money. When you question it, you won't.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Believe #Doing You #Making Money

If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons
-- Marilyn Manson

#Hate #People #Want

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Thinking #Doctors #Rock N Roll

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Offensive

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Sacrifice #Return #Expecting

I talked to Snoop Doggy Dog today. Well I'm not sure if you could really call it talked because I could hardly understand what he was saying. But i think he was trying to communicate was that he wanted to work with me in some sort of capacity and something involving marijuana.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Dog #Marijuana #Thinking

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.
-- Marilyn Manson

#People #Buckets #Transformation

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Children #College #Giving

What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Sacrifice #Evil #Religion

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Satan #Rebellion

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Thinking #Want #Way

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Scar

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Believe #Home #Freedom Of Speech

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Thinking #Fire #Mind

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?
-- Marilyn Manson

#People #Villain #Raised

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Jobs #Dad #Parent

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Wall #Rooms #Crayon

Everything is acting.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Acting

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

#Love #Enemy #Taught

People only hate what they see in themselves.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Hate #People

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
-- Marilyn Manson

#People #Society #Anarchy

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Together #Pieces #Vases