Marilyn Manson

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Brian Hugh Warner (born 5 January 1969) American musician, artist, and leader of the band Marilyn Manson; most often known by his stage name Marilyn Manson.

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I've got an F and a C, and I got a K, too, but the only thing I'm missing is a bitch like U.
- (s)AINT, Golden Age of Grotesque
(Reaction to Columbine) "Raise your children better, or I'll raise them for you."

Anti-people now you've gone too far
Here's your Antichrist Superstar
- 1996, Antichrist Superstar

Dear god, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you
- Godeatgod, Holy Wood

Do you love your guns, god, the government?
- The Love Song, Holy Wood

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers./I don't need to choose a side.
- Irresponsible Hate Anthem

I went to God just to see, and I was looking at me.
- The Reflecting God, Antichrist Superstar

I'm just a sample of soul made to look just like a human being
- I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me, Mechanical Animals

Yeah I do want to have kids someday and I would show them everything. I wouldn't hold anything back from them. I think if you show kids reality and stop trying to protect them from it, then they can handle it.
- Guitar World Magazine (24 September 1994)

Q: What would you be doing if you weren't in music?
MM:I think I might be a third grade teacher or a TV evangelist. Something where I could be getting at peoples minds when they're most vulnerable.
- Zine (24 September 1994)

No matter how much they love you, they want a tragedy.
- On MM Fans, Spin Magazine (March 1997)

A long time ago, there was a man as misunderstood as we are and they nailed him to a fucking cross!
- Winston Salem, N.C. (19 April 1997)

If I believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God — and I believe that there is one. I think God would appreciate what I say, because I can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots.
- Penthouse Magazine (May 1997)

I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist/ I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit.
- The Fight Song, Holy Wood

I'm not against God. I'm against the Misuse of God.
- Raygun Magazine (Dec/January 1998)

If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own dick on the wonder years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper. Besides I wouldn't have sucked other people's dicks on stage, either. I would have been sucking my own. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own dick? I think I'm gonna call the surgeon in the morning.
- The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (1998)

If you die when there's no-one watching, then your ratings drop and you're forgotten... If they kill you on their TV, you're a martyr and a lamb of God
- Lamb Of God, Holy Wood

I wouldn't say a single word to them, I would listen to what they have to say and that's what no one did.
- When asked what he would say to "the kids at Columbine or the people in that community" in Michael Moore's film 'Bowling for Columbine' (2002).

Q: Why do you do this?
MM:Because it's the only way I can deal with life.
- America Online Interview

I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me.
- "I Don't Like The Drugs But The Drugs Like Me"

Peel off all those eyes and crawl into the dark. You've poisoned all your children to camouflage your scars
- The Man That You Fear, Antichrist Superstar

Pray now baby, pray your life was just a dream.
- The Man That You Fear, Antichrist Superstar

Prick your finger, it is done. The moon has now eclipsed the sun. The angel has spread its wings. The time has come for bitter things.
- Cryptorchid, Antichrist Superstar

Some children died the other day. We fed machines and then we prayed. Puked up and down in morbid faith. You should have seen the ratings that day.
- The Nobodies, Antichrist Superstar

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear
- The Man That You Fear, Antichrist Superstar

There's a lot of pretty, pretty ones
That want to get you high
But all the pretty, pretty ones
Will leave you low and blow your mind
- "The Dope Show"

When we were good, you just closed your eyes. When we were bad, we'll scar your minds.
- "The Fight Song", Holy Wood

The world spreads its legs for another star
- Little Horn, Antichrist Superstar

Today I am dirty, want to be pretty. Tommorow, I know that I'm just dirt. We are the nobodies, wanna be somebodies. When we're dead, they'll know just who we are
- The Nobodies, Antichrist Superstar

We're on a bullet, and we're headed straight into god. Even he'd like to end it too.
- The Death Song, Holy Wood

User friendly fucking dopestar obscene
Will you die when you’re high
You’d never die just for me
She says,
I’m not in love, but I’m gonna fuck you
’til somebody better comes along.
- "User Friendly"

I never believed the devil was real
But god couldn't make someone filthy as you
- "Slutgarden"

"I would like to read you a quote that came from an interview, recently with someone named, Brian Warner, The quote goes like this: 'So initially I was drawn into the darker side of life. But it is really just human nature. I started to learn that everything that's considered a sin is what makes you a human being. 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 are made to feel guilty for being human than you are going to be trapped in a never ending sin and repent cycle that you can't escape from and you are going to be miserable. Ultimately you will be living in your own hell so there is no need to worry about going to hell because hell will be on earth....' you might know Brian Warner as Marylin Manson."
- Brian McLaren "Sin 101: Why Sin Matters (Genesis 3:1-24" Preaching Today: Today's Best Sermons Issue 243

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And that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we see and what we do in our personal lives, even if you're not a part of that religion. Antichrist Superstar (the album) is a challenge really, to traditional morality and it's... to make people question that and make people think about different perspectives.

Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became something that people hated.

Art opens minds, fascism closes them.

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

Everything you do is part of a plane plummeting towards our pitiful, dying earth. But your art, what you create is stepping onto the burning wing and forgetting silly things like life and death for a moment. Just to enjoy for one second a glimpse of beauty before you are reduced to ashes.

Got violence?

How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?

I can do with music what people do with religion.

I had a nightmare the other night that people were trying to stab me and shoot me and things like that. I dont know what gives me that dream, but I pay close attention to it.

I'm dying and I hope you're dying, too..

I'm just a boy, playing the suicide king

I'm lucky — I can put all of my anger into a song. Other people can't. When someone has something to say and no one's listening and it just builds up, then these things happen. People react violently. They cause a spectacle so you're forced to listen. ~ On the Columbine killings

I'm thankful that I have two middle fingers.....I only wish I had more.

Im not saying that when I perform I'm Barry Manilow, but Im also not killing kids and beating up dogs and things like that.

Is adult entertainment killing children or is killing children entertaining adults?

It's like, I guess just being offended by how much everything suck, I can't help but to be in a bad mood all the time.

It's more so now because the record deals so much with the idea of revolution. Even though it discusses the failures of revolution and how you can't change the world — you have to change within yourself

Ive never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships the devil.

Kill your god, kill your TV

no salvation..... no forgiveness......

Q: Obviously, people have misinterpreted what you're trying to do.
"As much as I've wanted them to," he says with a brittle laugh. "I think that often chaos and misinterpretation in itself is a greater way of making people think than taking things as literally as how you meant them in the first place."

Stop praying! Start thinking!

The album is of the concept variety. Its central character is Adam Kadmon, "a naive boy who wants to be part of a 'perfect' world that doesn't want him". But as ever with Marilyn it's a fine line between pisstake and seriousness. "Well there's definitely a strong sense of sarcasm which usually leans more to me being sardonic," he says. "I don't consider myself a comedian and I don't consider what I do to be approached in a way like say, Eminem but at the same time I take what I do very seriously but you can never take yourself too seriously or you become a parody." ~ On the album Holy Wood (2000)

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

There's days when I'd love for everybody to realize that things have gone too far, and that we need to be born again so that we can appreciate the little things....then there's other days when I think the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybodys stepped on me my whole life. I've put on this crown....but I'm not sure if I want it.

Those who move beyond the albums title and the most blatant aspect of what I do, will then understand what I am trying to say.

To kill the universe... it takes only one bullet...

We write our prayers on a little bomb, kiss it on the face and send it to God

What impression do you want to make on Americas youth?
MM:"If I could just get them to WANT AN ANSWER, then they'll find it on their own. I don't have any answer for them. There is a distinct lack of leadership, idols, icons, and superstars for kids to identify with. When I was a kid there was a lot of people that I could look to or look up to and it just seems like there's not that anymore."

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed

Why should we believe in a god that doesn't believe in us?

You cannot sedate all the things you hate.

Your families and your teachers and your preacher, they didnt want you to come here tonight...They'd rather you be in church..but you ARE in church motherfuckers!

I never really hated one true god, but the god of the people I hated!

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.

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

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

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

"Hopefully I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity." (Spin, August 1996)

"I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams...it was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something." (on his album Antichrist Superstar, huH, October 1996)

"I think everytime people listen to this new album maybe God will be destroyed in their heads." (on Antichrist Superstar, huH, October 1996)

"I don't know if anyone has really understood what we're trying to do. This isn't just about shock value...that's just to lure the people in. Once we've got them we can give them our message." (Hit Parader, October 1996)

"My mom used to tell me when I was a kid, 'If you curse at nighttime, the devil’s going to come to you when you’re sleeping.' I used to get excited because I really wanted it to happen...I wanted it. I wanted it more than anything." (Rolling Stone, January 1997)

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Misattributions

Suicide is painless.
- 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
- Being from Manson's Fight Song of Holywood. This is actually a quote from Josef Stalin, Russian leader in the second world war.

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Quotes of others about Manson

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original. ~ Alice Cooper

...What people miss about [Marilyn] Manson is that he is just reflecting, he's an artist, people want to focus that energy on him, but it's not really him, it's really about you. So for every guy sitting there with a beer and a .45 in his belt, Manson is just speaking to that end of society. He's speaking as an artist. He's not speaking as himself, and that's where people get really lost with Manson.
- Corgan, William. Interview. 1998 Pre-Grammy Show. MTV. 25 February 1998.

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