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Marilyn Manson Quotes

If Satan wasn’t around, churches would go out of business.

– 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

I’m not a role model. I’m a role villain.

– Marilyn Manson

If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can’t say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.

– 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

I’ve been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.

– Marilyn Manson

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I’ll draw on the wall.

– Marilyn Manson

It’s shocking to me that it’s easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

– 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

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

– Marilyn Manson

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

– Marilyn Manson

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

– Marilyn Manson

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.

– Marilyn Manson

Finding someone who’s willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.

– Marilyn Manson

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.

– Marilyn Manson

I’m not a masochist. I’m simply into trying to enjoy what I do, because otherwise there’s no point.

– 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 care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don’t know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don’t base my life around either one, and I don’t change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

– Marilyn Manson

Sometimes I wonder if I’m a character being written, or if I’m writing myself.

– 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

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I’m afraid that they’re going to leave.

– Marilyn Manson

I’m kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That’s how I get out my shyness.

– Marilyn Manson

People only hate what they see in themselves.

– Marilyn Manson

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

– Marilyn Manson

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

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

People expect me to me a ‘shock rocker,’ but there’s nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

– Marilyn Manson

The word ‘Antichrist’, to me, is the collective disbelief in god.

– Marilyn Manson

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

– Marilyn Manson

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

– Marilyn Manson

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