People Quotes by Marilyn Manson

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

— Marilyn Manson

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

— Marilyn Manson

I refuse to say things behind people's backs.

— Marilyn Manson

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

— Marilyn Manson

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

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Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

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

— Marilyn Manson

People only hate what they see in themselves.

— 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…

— Marilyn Manson

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

— Marilyn Manson

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

— Marilyn Manson

There are definitely Dark Forces out there that none of us fully understand. People fear what they don't understand, and lash out…

— Marilyn Manson

If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves.

— Marilyn Manson

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

— Marilyn Manson

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

— 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…

— Marilyn Manson

“I think art is the only thing that's spirtual in the world. And I refuse to be forced to believe in other…

— Marilyn Manson

I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create…

— 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…

— 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…

— Marilyn Manson

People love to judge, as long as they have somebody else to judge they don't give in and answer with hate would…

— Marilyn Manson

I didn't go to guitar school and I don't know how to play chords, but I can do it in my own…

— Marilyn Manson

People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist.…

— Marilyn Manson

I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people's moralities are so far below what…

— Marilyn Manson

I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just…

— Marilyn Manson

I'm not afraid to express the different elements of my personality, and I think there's a bad habit in America now to,…

— Marilyn Manson

I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their…

— Marilyn Manson

I'd seen the Led Zeppelin reunion and I've never been such a huge Led Zeppelin fan as much as the Doors or…

— Marilyn Manson

Image and music always works together for me. I think they're equally important and I've always done things in a way that…

— Marilyn Manson

Things like, people saying the new album would debut at number one on the Billboard Charts in the U.S. and I said,…

— Marilyn Manson

There's a lot of talk in some of the other versions of the Bible, the Hebrew versions, and things about the end…

— Marilyn Manson

I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real…

— Marilyn Manson

If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons

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I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

— Marilyn Manson

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

— 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

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

— Marilyn Manson

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

— Marilyn Manson

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.

— 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…

— Marilyn Manson