Top 100 Manson Marilyn Quotes
#1. 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
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#2. The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity.
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#3. If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#6. As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn't seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.
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#7. Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.
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#8. I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.
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#9. Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.
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#10. 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.
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#13. We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.
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#14. 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.
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#15. I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.
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#16. 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.'
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#17. If i believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and i believe that there is one. i think God would appreciate what i say, because i can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots
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#18. 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.
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#19. Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.
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#20. Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.
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#21. But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.
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#22. It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.
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#23. If I was a musician it would probably be something between Marilyn Manson and The Prodigy.
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#24. The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.
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#26. I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.
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#27. Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get?
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#28. I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me because I was the only person they had working there.
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#29. I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people,
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#30. Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war with Christ." Manson: "I can't possibly be at war with Christ, because your religion killed him and what he stood for. But if you want to be at war with me, bring it on."
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#31. Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.
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#32. 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.
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#33. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
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#34. 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.
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#35. On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.
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#36. 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.
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#37. People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is.
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#38. This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?
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#39. The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.
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#40. My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
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#43. If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.
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#45. 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.
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#46. Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
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#47. 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.
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#48. I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.
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#49. 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.
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#50. FLYING DOWN SUNSET SMOKING CRACK
TRANSVESTITE IN THE FRONT
EDDI MURPHY IN THE BACK
MOP HAD ME GRINDY AND GRIDDY
MARILYN MANSON, I DYED MY HAIR BLUE
AND GREW SOME TITTIES
Bizarre
#51. To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.
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#52. 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.
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#53. The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.
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#54. Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?
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#55. I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you.
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#57. Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant.
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#59. If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.
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#60. It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.
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#61. Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.
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#62. Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire
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#63. 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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#64. If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.
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#66. When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling ... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?
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#67. I've always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you're not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography.
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#69. Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.
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#72. The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
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#73. I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.
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#74. The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.
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#75. Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.
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#76. We spoke of religion, and how much of it is just a custom preserving practical codes of health, morality and justice that are no longer necessary for group survival (like not eating animals with cloven hooves).
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#77. I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.
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#78. My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
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#80. Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them ...
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#81. 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.
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#82. I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.
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#84. People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you'd have to listen.
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#85. As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.
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#86. I'm not a believer of the "perfect world" TV tries to feed us.
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#87. I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!
Karen Gillan
#88. 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.
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#89. We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
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#90. I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.
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#91. 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.
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#92. If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.
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#93. 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'.
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#95. 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.
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#96. To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.
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#97. America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.
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#98. I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me
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#100. Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.
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