110+ Marilyn Manson Quotes On Provocative, Theatrical And Gothic

Marilyn Manson is an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer, actor, painter, author, and former music journalist. He is best known for his band, Marilyn Manson, which he founded in 1989. His music is often seen as a commentary on society and religion, and he has been known to shock audiences with his controversial stage performances and music videos. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Marilyn Manson on love, life, provocative.

Top 10 Marilyn Manson Quotes

1. Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.
2. When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
3. If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.
4. Music is the strongest form of magic.
5. We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
6. I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person
7. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
8. Seance to renaissance. So it begins
9. I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.
10. I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

Marilyn Manson Image Quotes

Music is the strongest form of magic. — Marilyn Manson

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. — Marilyn Manson

Seance to renaissance. So it begins — Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson Short Quotes

• What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.
• I wasn't born with enough middle fingers
• Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.
• The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
• This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
• The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
• I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.
• You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.
• I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.
• Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different

Marilyn Manson Quotes About Love

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. — Marilyn Manson

It isn’t hard to find a person whom I could fall in love with, to give her romance. But it’s hard to find such a person who would understand your view on life, accept who you really are and would truly care for you. — Marilyn Manson

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love? — Marilyn Manson

I fall in love very easily. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension. — Marilyn Manson

I'd like to think that I'd helped people all over the world to question the things they otherwise would have accepted as the truth. I'd also like to think that I'd charmed them a bit with my lovely vocal stylings and the baring of my lovely arse. — Marilyn Manson

Films and things like that are really my first love and, so when we get to make videos it's just as important as the song. To me it's not a commercial, for me it's a whole work of art on it's own so, we plan on working on a movie and things like that in the future so. — Marilyn Manson

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear. — Marilyn Manson

There's days when I'd love everybody to relize that things have gone too far, and we need to be born again...but there are other days when I think the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybody's stepped on me my whole life. — Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson Quotes About Life

I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more. — Marilyn Manson

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful. — Marilyn Manson

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

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours. — Marilyn Manson

I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?' — Marilyn Manson

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life — Marilyn Manson

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be. — Marilyn Manson

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore. — Marilyn Manson

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate. — Marilyn Manson

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

Marilyn Manson Quotes About People

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

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

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'. — Marilyn Manson

When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've been to jail." The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do. — Marilyn Manson

A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Satan - which are four different characters. It's got the end of the world. You've got zombies, giants, demon possession, a lot of murder. — Marilyn Manson

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.' — Marilyn Manson

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

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. — Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson Quotes About Feel

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something. — Marilyn Manson

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

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

I think guilt is the biggest problem in America, people are always feeling guilty about being themselves. You can't say what you want because it's not politically correct. You can't look like you want because you, the people at the office aren't going to like you and so on. — Marilyn Manson

My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else. — Marilyn Manson

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary. — Marilyn Manson

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? — Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson Quotes About Music

If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything. — Marilyn Manson

There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers — Marilyn Manson

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings. — Marilyn Manson

I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady Gaga, just musically. — Marilyn Manson

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music. — Marilyn Manson

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles. — Marilyn Manson

Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music. — Marilyn Manson

Mechanical Animals for me documents the repair of my emotions, the repair of my soul, and this record does deal with God in a different way. It deals with me finding God in art, and in music. I think there's more spirituality in art than you could find in a church — Marilyn Manson

If everyone can make music. Make better music. — 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

Marilyn Manson Quotes About Person

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either. — Marilyn Manson

I've never been a suicidal person. I've never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I'm seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous - as if you're watching re-runs of things you've already seen. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

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

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech. — Marilyn Manson

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me. — 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

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old? — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity. — Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson Quotes About Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. — Marilyn Manson

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

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

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick. — Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture. — Marilyn Manson

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

A story might sell if there's a headline like 'Marilyn Manson admits to being Satanic', all the little hypocrites will go and buy the magazine, read about what evil, weird people we are and will feel better about themselves. — Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake. — Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson Famous Quotes And Sayings

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty. That's the point I was at before I was able to make. — Marilyn Manson

Music is the strongest form of magic. — Marilyn Manson

I talked to Snoop Doggy Dog today. Well I'm not sure if you could really call it talked because I could hardly understand what he was saying. But i think he was trying to communicate was that he wanted to work with me in some sort of capacity and something involving marijuana. — Marilyn Manson

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. — Marilyn Manson

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." — Marilyn Manson

Seance to renaissance. So it begins — Marilyn Manson

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society. — Marilyn Manson

The most genius ideas are in the minds of children and lunatics. I describe myself as somewhere in between. — Marilyn Manson

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.' — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it. — Marilyn Manson

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself. — Marilyn Manson

Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives. — Marilyn Manson

Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy. — Marilyn Manson

My dream of an apocalypse that was the Antichrist Superstar has unfolded. I could see that they only looked and acted like humans, but they had lost their souls, they were Mechanical Animals — Marilyn Manson

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look. — Marilyn Manson

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out. — Marilyn Manson

I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out... It's not something easily described or understood. — Marilyn Manson

Better pray for hell, not hallelujah. — Marilyn Manson

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

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. — Marilyn Manson

I put a mustache and some eyebrows on, and I looked just like Nicolas Cage. ... We have the same amazingly handsome good looks. — Marilyn Manson

We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise. — Marilyn Manson

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one — Marilyn Manson

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference. — Marilyn Manson

What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation. — Marilyn Manson

I say no to drugs, but they don't listen. — 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

Sell your soul to yourself. You'll make more money. — Marilyn Manson

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you. — Marilyn Manson

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

I traveled into the future to get back in time. — Marilyn Manson

I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system. — Marilyn Manson

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate. — Marilyn Manson

I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain. — Marilyn Manson

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them. — Marilyn Manson

I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is. — Marilyn Manson

I wanna die young and sell my soul, use up all your drugs and make me come. — Marilyn Manson

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy. — Marilyn Manson

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist. — Marilyn Manson

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion. — Marilyn Manson

Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement. — Marilyn Manson

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find. — Marilyn Manson

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation. — Marilyn Manson

Art is a big question mark. — Marilyn Manson

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

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

Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all. — Marilyn Manson

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show. — Marilyn Manson

People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of my shock. I just don't like the way that Christianity combined with the influence of television has bred a nation of weakness. (Christian television do get the facts wrong sometimes and the image they portray turns most people off.) — Marilyn Manson

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults? — Marilyn Manson

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb. — Marilyn Manson

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. — 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

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. — Marilyn Manson

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself. — Marilyn Manson

Life Lessons by Marilyn Manson

1. Marilyn Manson has taught us to be unapologetically ourselves and to embrace our own unique identity, no matter what society might think.
2. He has also taught us to be open-minded and to challenge the status quo, to question authority and to never be afraid to stand up for what we believe in.
3. Finally, he has encouraged us to be creative and to express ourselves through art, music, and any other form of expression that we feel passionate about.