Top 300 Marilyn Manson Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “Art gives me the freedom I don’t have when I make music.”

— Marilyn Manson

254. “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

255. “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.”

— Marilyn Manson

256. “There’s nothing like the feeling of knowing that you’ve made a difference in someone’s life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.”

— Marilyn Manson

257. “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

258. “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.”

— Marilyn Manson

259. “I often obsess so much about things that I can’t get done, that I ruin other things.”

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260. “The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.”

— Marilyn Manson

261. “I don’t try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.”

— Marilyn Manson

262. “As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.”

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263. “I did vote Obama. But I’ve never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.”

— Marilyn Manson

264. “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.”

— Marilyn Manson

265. “Sometimes you feel awkward being what you’re best at, you feel like you have to be something new.”

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266. “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

267. “I believe a lot about psychology, or I’d like to learn about it – I’m someone who likes to learn about everything.”

— Marilyn Manson

268. “You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.”

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269. “In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that’s secondary.”

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270. “Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.”

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271. “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.”

— Marilyn Manson

272. “Christians are a lot like dinosaurs – about to become extinct.”

— Marilyn Manson

273. “I can’t turn off the way I think, and that’s essentially who I am, who anybody is.”

— Marilyn Manson

274. “I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with “hail Satan,” but I couldn’t bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school.”

— Marilyn Manson

275. “I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.”

— Marilyn Manson

276. “I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn’t have had more obstacles.”

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277. “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.”

— Marilyn Manson

278. “The first time I performed musically, I threw up.”

— Marilyn Manson

279. “I don’t think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.”

— Marilyn Manson

280. “He’s just simply John5 because he’s the fifth person that we’ve hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names.”

— Marilyn Manson

281. “If your reality is the same as my reality, then you’re in trouble.”

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

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283. “I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist – what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.”

— Marilyn Manson

284. “Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that’s why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they’re not, it doesn’t really add up to me.”

— Marilyn Manson

285. “The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.”

— Marilyn Manson

286. “I usually wake up far after breakfast. So I have no other choice but to go straight to dinner.”

— Marilyn Manson

287. “I refuse to say things behind people’s backs.”

— Marilyn Manson

288. “Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors.”

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289. “Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.”

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

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291. “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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292. “I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.”

— Marilyn Manson

293. “People don’t necessarily confide in one another to get something off their chest. They want something: reassurance, which is a hard gift to give convincingly.”

— Marilyn Manson

294. “For me it’s very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because it’s important to get them out...”

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295. “There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why, when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around, and it made good TV.”

— Marilyn Manson

296. “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

297. “They’ll see it. And it doesn’t matter if they don’t. It’s only Rock ‘n’ Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.”

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298. “If everyone can make music. Make better music.”

— Marilyn Manson

299. “I don’t encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.”

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300. “These people are artists. These people are musicians. They’re taking it out and trying to express it that way.”

— Marilyn Manson