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Quotes by Marilyn Manson

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
– Marilyn Manson
Americans talk so much about being individualistic, but they don't want you to be an individual because if you think for yourself then you're not going to be a part of any trend that they want you to be a part of. They don't want you to think for yourself. They tell you they do so that you're happy and you're stupid and you're sheep.
– Marilyn Manson
Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.
– Marilyn Manson
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
I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.
– Marilyn Manson
I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
– Marilyn Manson
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
– Marilyn Manson
I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage.
– Marilyn Manson
In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
– Marilyn Manson
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
– Marilyn Manson
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
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
Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
– Marilyn Manson
That's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we see and what we do in our personal lives, even if you're not a part of that religion. Antichrist Superstar [the album] is a challenge really, to traditional morality and it's... to make people question that and make people think about different perspectives.
– Marilyn Manson
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
– Marilyn Manson
The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
– Marilyn Manson
These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.
– Marilyn Manson
They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.
– Marilyn Manson
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
– Marilyn Manson
What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because it's just about popularity. There are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of Jesus, while America takes him for granted.
– Marilyn Manson
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
– Marilyn Manson
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
– Marilyn Manson
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
When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.
– Marilyn Manson
What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.
– Marilyn Manson
There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
– Marilyn Manson
The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
– Marilyn Manson
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
– Marilyn Manson
Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
– Marilyn Manson
My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.
– 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 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
Music is the strongest form of magic.
– Marilyn Manson
Marriage changes everything.
– Marilyn Manson
If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
– Marilyn Manson
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
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
– Marilyn Manson
I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
– Marilyn Manson
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
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.
– Marilyn Manson
Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
– Marilyn Manson
As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.
– Marilyn Manson
Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
– Marilyn Manson