Marilyn Manson Quotes
January 5, 1969
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To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.
2007 Ultimate-Guitar interview 
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More Marilyn Manson Quotes
… 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.
Marilyn Manson— December 10, 1996, MTV Europe, "Headbanger's Ball"
The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
Marilyn Manson— October 1996, Huh
If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.
Marilyn Manson— October, 10, 1996, Huh
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— January 1997, Circus
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.
Marilyn Manson— January 1997, CMJ
Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.
Marilyn Manson— Spin magazine, August 1996, p. 34
If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.
Marilyn Manson— BBC News (23 August 2005)
“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— Interview on The Henry Rollins Show on IFC
"Art gives me the freedom I don’t have when I make music. In music you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that’s secondary.”
Marilyn Manson— Regarding his latest art exhibition, June 30, 2010 theage.com.auMarilyn Manson portrait
Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”
Marilyn Manson— 2000, marilynmanson.com
Suicide is painless.
Marilyn Manson— Though covered by Manson, this is actually a lyric to "Suicide Is Painless" written by Mike Altman for the movie M*A*S*H (1970); the music (written by Johnny Mandel) later provided the theme music for the M*A*S*H TV series.
The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.
Marilyn Manson— Being from Manson's Fight Song of Holy Wood, this is actually a quote from German writer Erich Maria Remarque, also often misattributed to Josef Stalin.
