Manson Marilyn Quotes & Sayings

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

Hello world and hello universe. Thank you all very much — Marilyn Manson

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

Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts ... in negative space. — Marilyn Manson

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary. — Marilyn Manson

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first. — Marilyn Manson

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

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

Image and music always works together for me. I think they're equally important and I've always done things in a way that people remember them by, but I don't set out to just shock people ... because that's very easy, a lot of people could do that, I just like to do things the way that makes me happy really. And sometimes that's too much for certain people, but, you know, I try to push the envelope to make the boundaries wider as far as what you can and can't do in music. — Marilyn Manson

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

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

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself. — Wes Borland

Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore ... instead I grew up and became something that people hated. — Marilyn Manson

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

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves. — Marilyn Manson

The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. If you believe you're the center of your own universe and you want to see the universe destroyed, it only takes one bullet. — Marilyn Manson

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist. — Marilyn Manson

Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant. — Marilyn Manson

There's a lot of talk in some of the other versions of the Bible, the Hebrew versions, and things about the end of the world not being a punishment from God, but being an invitation from mankind. That mankind has to invite its own destruction. And I think that's very true, and it's almost very American. I think that's the type of society we're in and it's people's very fear of the Antichrist that has created it — Marilyn Manson

There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do. — Marilyn Manson

Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10. — Alice Cooper

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

Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. — Skrillex

The most that I can learn is in records that you burn. — Marilyn Manson

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself. — Marilyn Manson

I am the pedophiles dream, a messianic Peter Pan. — Marilyn Manson

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference. — Marilyn Manson

I've said a million times that if more stupid people killed themselves over stupid songs, there would be less stupid people in the world. — Marilyn Manson

If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything. — Marilyn Manson

If I was a musician it would probably be something between Marilyn Manson and The Prodigy. — Daniel Marques

God is just a statistics. — Marilyn Manson

I think every man and woman is a star. It's just a matter of realizing and becoming it. It's all a matter of willpower. The world is just how you see it. If you want to have other people tell you how to see it, then you can. But if you want to look at it differently, then it's limitless what you can do. That's why I don't feel the need to be one person. I can be as many people as I like. — Marilyn Manson

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

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

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema. — Marilyn Manson

I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message. — Marilyn Manson

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

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

When you get to heaven, you will wish you were in hell. — Marilyn Manson

The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are. — Marilyn Manson

Yeah his being Sumerian to this group would go over like an Ozzy Osbourne/Marilyn Manson duet at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting. He might as well be wearing a shit that said "Kibbles and Bits," with a heavy emphasis on the "bits" part ... — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it's out of your system and in their hands. I always think it's therapeutic. — Marilyn Manson

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics. — Marilyn Manson

Art is a big question mark. — Marilyn Manson

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

I'd like to think that I'd helped people all over the world to question the things they otherwise would have accepted as the truth. I'd also like to think that I'd charmed them a bit with my lovely vocal stylings and the baring of my lovely arse. — Marilyn Manson

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles. — Marilyn Manson

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter. — Marilyn Manson

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art. — Marilyn Manson

Hopefully, I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity. — Marilyn Manson

Books are good because they are thick and you can hit someone with it. — Marilyn Manson

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things. — Marilyn Manson

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue. — Marilyn Manson

People don't keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don't want to tell but they want everyone to know. — Marilyn Manson

We've always found that with people being so desensitized, things have to be really shocking and have to punch you in the face to get your attention. Then, once you've got their attention, you can say something they might remember — Marilyn Manson

As a kid I just felt like an outsider. — Marilyn Manson

Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson. — Kate O'Beirne

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire — Marilyn Manson

I still get excited performing live. when you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its something you can't get from being a writer or being an ad man ... its almost ritualistic. — Marilyn Manson

I refuse to say things behind people's backs. — Marilyn Manson

[ ... ] no one had lived up to the roles they acted out in public. They wasted their years trying to live the lies that they had created for themselves. Only in private could they really be the demons, hypocrites and sinners they really were, and woe betide anyone who caught them at their game, because the only thing worse than a lie is a lie exposed. — Marilyn Manson

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore. — Marilyn Manson

This is the golden age of grotesque. — Marilyn Manson

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger. — Marilyn Manson

In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love? — Marilyn Manson

Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves - and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear. — Marilyn Manson

I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie. — Marilyn Manson

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. — Marilyn Manson

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

There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers — Marilyn Manson

I'm a teen distortion, survived abortion. — Marilyn Manson

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

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy. — Marilyn Manson

There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. — Gary Numan

[ ... ] extremes - whether good or bad - don't fit into society's definition of normality — Marilyn Manson

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music. — Marilyn Manson

We were totally high and we had Quiet Riot play at our after-show party at the Dragonfly. I think we reunited them, just like we did W.A.S.P. We take sole responsibility for the return of retro heavy metal, and I'm ashamed. But — Marilyn Manson

I hate normal studios, because you have to say "hi" to the person at the front desk. And then you go into the studio, and there's a second engineer in there that you don't know, and then you're stuck in a glass box with someone talking to you through a walkie-talkie. — Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick. — Marilyn Manson

Yet. I'm starting to think that if the Internet is the CB radio of the nineties, then the home computer is the trailer park of the soul, a dangerous tool in the hands of idiots. Eventually self-imposed fascism will destroy man as he convinces himself he doesn't have to think anymore. SEPTEMBER — Marilyn Manson

I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them. I should be the last person that [people] should be attracted to. — Marilyn Manson

Everybody's someone else's nigger
I know you are so am I
I wasn't born with enough middle fingers
I don't need to chose a side — Marilyn Manson

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless. — Marilyn Manson

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people. — Marilyn Manson

The key to changing the way people think is to change what's popular. That's why rather than submit to the mainstream, you have to become it - and then overcome it. — Marilyn Manson

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

I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not really a bad person.' It's not just a show for me. It's my life. — Marilyn Manson

I wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he's going to make it through his own show. — Tommy Lee

I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it. — Marilyn Manson

The fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminders scrawled on the back of a greasy fist." greasy fist." - Marilyn Manson — 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

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway. — Marilyn Manson

[ ... ] morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [ ... ] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them — 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

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me. — Marilyn Manson

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal. — Marilyn Manson

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

A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Satan - which are four different characters. It's got the end of the world. You've got zombies, giants, demon possession, a lot of murder. — Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson has always been intended to confuse some, anger some and make some people feel at home. There's no way to misunderstand what I do - but everyone can understand it differently. That's the only way I've learned to embrace art - it has to be a question mark, not an answer. — Marilyn Manson