Marilyn Manson quotes

Marilyn Manson is an American singer, songwriter, and actor known for his controversial stage persona and image. His music and performances often explore dark themes and challenge social norms. He has been a highly influential figure in alternative metal and industrial rock. Here are 177 of his quotes:

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

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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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Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

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

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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.

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Art is a big question mark.

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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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Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.'

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Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

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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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If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it's not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.

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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.

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

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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.

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It's really important for me to get across to our fans that whenever I put myself in different circumstances. It is to learn from it so I can relay it to others.

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If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one.

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If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

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To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

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I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room.

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

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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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There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

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