Top 300 Marilyn Manson Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “If anybody wants to be a rock star they’ve gotta try hard enough. They’re not gonna get it handed to them.”

— Marilyn Manson

202. “I don’t need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.”

— Marilyn Manson

203. “Man is still at the learning stage, and mankind is so arrogant to think that he’s the highest form of evolution on earth. There’s so much of the brain that we still don’t use, and that’s all I ever try to do – go to the next level.”

— Marilyn Manson

204. “For me, the key to longevity – and immortality, in a sense – has to do with transformation.”

— Marilyn Manson

205. “I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.”

— Marilyn Manson

206. “I just don’t like when there’s a rumor that says I’m dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, ‘Thank you for the big ups!’”

— Marilyn Manson

207. “You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That’s the paradox of Marilyn Manson.”

— Marilyn Manson

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

— Marilyn Manson

209. “I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make ’em laugh or to scare ’em or stir things up just to cause problems.”

— Marilyn Manson

210. “To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.”

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211. “It’s not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I’m an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn’t think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.”

— Marilyn Manson

212. “I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there’s nothing like making a difference in someone’s life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.”

— Marilyn Manson

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

— Marilyn Manson

214. “Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.”

— Marilyn Manson

215. “The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.”

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216. “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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217. “I’m a confession that is waiting to be heard.”

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218. “Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.”

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219. “If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.”

— Marilyn Manson

220. “There’s nothing that anyone could say about me that would hurt my feelings.”

— Marilyn Manson

221. “I’m not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.”

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222. “If you believe in what you’re doing, you’re going to make money. When you question it, you won’t.”

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223. “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

224. “I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.”

— Marilyn Manson

225. “Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It’s better than being useless.”

— Marilyn Manson

226. “What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.”

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227. “Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain.”

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228. “The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch.”

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

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230. “My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life.”

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231. “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

232. “People alway ask me what advantages fame has started to bring; there are always plenty of free drinks, but other times people wanna put stuff into your drink to kill you off. Their gonna have to try a lot harder if they want to get me.”

— Marilyn Manson

233. “Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.”

— Marilyn Manson

234. “I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.”

— Marilyn Manson

235. “Art gives people a reason to be alive.”

— Marilyn Manson

236. “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.”

— Marilyn Manson

237. “Rock n roll is about drugs.”

— Marilyn Manson

238. “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

239. “I’m not a believer of the “perfect world” TV tries to feed us.”

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240. “My weaknesses had become my strengths, my ugliness had become beauty, my apathy to the world had become a desire to save it.”

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241. “I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And at the same time, I think, I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.”

— Marilyn Manson

242. “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.”

— Marilyn Manson

243. “As a kid I just felt like an outsider.”

— Marilyn Manson

244. “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

245. “I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it.”

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246. “I am a character, so that’s the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being Marilyn Manson as having lipstick on, but I don’t really have some sort of other lifestyle.”

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247. “I’m someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.”

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248. “I traveled into the future to get back in time.”

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249. “I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that’s what really attracts us to people.”

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250. “Someday, when I manage to finally figure out how to take care of myself, then I’ll consider taking care of someone else.”

— Marilyn Manson