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Quotes by Anton LaVey

A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sally's Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.
– Anton LaVey
As far as modern music I'm all for bands doing things for the cause of Satanism: Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, the Reverend Horton Heat. I'm as supportive as I can get with these people.
– Anton LaVey
But the average person doesn't have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They don't want to participate beyond a certain point. They want the safety of the herd, to be catered to, sit back and enjoy.
– Anton LaVey
Creeps and assholes are just good for target practice. So many people are.
– Anton LaVey
Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.
– Anton LaVey
Every girl I met in burlesque was 22.
– Anton LaVey
Hitler's greatest mistake was in, not his bringing together some of the things he tried to bring together, but by of course employing the racist concepts that he did, he lost everything. I mean, who knows but he would have won the war if he kept the people around that he considered inferior or his adjutants considered inferior.
– Anton LaVey
Hopefully by bringing back burlesque, you'll bring back the kind of body that's round on top and round on bottom. I love cellulite and stretch marks!
– Anton LaVey
I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.
– Anton LaVey
I don't go to strip bars anymore. I used to go incognito, trouble was they always thought I was an undercover cop.
– Anton LaVey
I feel that what is probably the greatest enemy of longevity is popularity, and most people die of popularity.
– Anton LaVey
I first started to play the calliope in the circus. The regular player was a drinker, so they got rid of him and put me on the calliope.
– Anton LaVey
I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads.
– Anton LaVey
I like classic cars, I've had some really good ones. A '66 Toronado, a black one - it's a very satanic-looking car. I have a coffin-nosed '37 Cord, white, I've had that one since 1956. I've had a '34 Deusenburg, a '48 Lincoln Continental with the squared-off windows. I like guns. I have a pretty good collection, I have some rare ones. I like really old books, old magazines, I'm always running out of space.
– Anton LaVey
I like raunchiness, not like in a biker-chick sort of a way, but like the girl can't help it. Little bruises, a few hairs out of place, a little stain here and there.
– Anton LaVey
I see nothing wrong with robbing somebody on the street.
– Anton LaVey
I tend to clam up with a tape recorder in front of me-I hesitate for prudent reasons, so I don't say as much.
– Anton LaVey
I wanted to get away anyway, not against parental authority, but from being a misfit against society. I was a misfit and a maverick when it came to clothes too. When I was 16 I was wearing zoot suits. I wouldn't be seen in a T-shirt. I wanted to look sharp.
– Anton LaVey
I've always been timid. I wait for the mating signal, yet I want to show my interest, but I'm too goddamn bashful to go for it! I have no sympathy for wolves. Why can't a man wait and see if there is any interest in them? Every woman wants to be pursued, it's a courting dance, a mating game and it should be that way, played out. The world is full of creeps.
– Anton LaVey
I've yet to find a contemporary musician that can play an exotic beat, a jungle or burly beat.
– Anton LaVey
If anything, we are enslaved more as human beings now than at any time, probably, in man's history. But it is so sugarcoated, it's so slick, it's so polished.
– Anton LaVey
In those days, everyone had a piano in their living room. I taught myself how to play by ear. No formal training of any kind. It was something I learned because I wanted to learn, not because I had my knuckles rapped.
– Anton LaVey
It's like the clock that doesn't work, it's right at least twice a day.
– Anton LaVey
Marilyn Monroe's breasts were not big, Jayne Mansfield was big, but not by today's standards. She made the most of what she had. She pulled her stomach in and used those built-up bras. I appreciate a balanced body, a wasp waist, full hips and breasts. I'm not that impressed by big breasts per se, but I'm from a different era. I've always been a leg man and a butt man.
– Anton LaVey
My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.
– Anton LaVey
Satanism could become the major religion of the 21st century.
– Anton LaVey
The Black Dahlia, she was someone who was just waiting for an executioner, waiting for it to happen. She was an ideal victim. I've met quite a few like her. They're just crying out, not just to be killed, but also tortured. She seemed very parasitic, a psychic vampire.
– Anton LaVey
The carnival was the predecessor to the burlesque world-this all tied together, the psychic, the hypnotic... That gave me a good foundation for playing the girlie shows, my opportunity to play for female dancers. I also played midway music and worked the sex shows.
– Anton LaVey
The ideal woman to me would be the gun-toting moll. Someone who is true blue and ready to face the world. Open to ideas and suggestion, not stubborn and closed minded.
– Anton LaVey
The path of least resistance was to get into an established burlesque house. I got my first job as an organist at the Burbank on Main Street in downtown L.A. The Follies was a sleazy place down the street. L.A. was quite a place back in the '40s, it was a haunted city.
– Anton LaVey
There is no real idol or anyone in the public eye now that I know of. I've always been satisfied with women that I've known. I've been really spoiled. You talk about the luck factor, I've been at the right place at the right time, because as it turns out, the women I'm attracted to are attracted to me.
– Anton LaVey
There is nothing wrong with sex and/or fetish, but some people are just disgusting cretins. There are so many variations of creeps, the Brooks Brothers suits, the little gold chain set, or the L.L. Bean gear, they all start to look the same. I've found the girls that do light up and get turned on by that kind of wolf-like attention are not really attractive women.
– Anton LaVey
There were two types of girls, the fast girls and the honorable girls with the bad reputations because they happened to look sharp with hair and makeup and clothes. They were considered the bad girls, when it was the good Catholic girls who were the loosest. Appearances were deceptive then.
– Anton LaVey
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
– Anton LaVey
Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior. Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.
– Anton LaVey
You were supposed to look like a G.I. with close-cropped hair, but my hair was too long for the time, a duck tail in the back, curled over in the front. I could pass for 25 when I was 16. It did help me get into the world of burlesque.
– Anton LaVey