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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.

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I Don't Expect Everyone

Marilyn Manson

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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.

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Are People Raised To Be Villains Or Vilified Like I Have Become?

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.

I Hate Therefore I Am...

The Person Who Thinks I Worship The Devil And Kill Animals Is Just As Important As Someone Who Makes An Interpretation That's Closer To What I Intended.

If Things Are Too Perfect, People Are Always So Afraid That It's Going To Change, So They Ruin It Themselves.

As A Kid I Was, Constantly Terrorized With The Idea Of Armageddon And The Antichrist And Things Like That And As I Got Older, I Realized That, Something Like Antichrist Is The Collective Disbelief In God.

The Hero Is Never The Star Of The Story.

Rock N Roll Is About Drugs.

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.

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.

The Word 'antichrist', To Me, Is The Collective Disbelief In God.

Art Gives People A Reason To Be Alive.

Art Is A Big Question Mark.

Relationships Never Break Cleanly. Like A Valuable Vase, They Are Smashed And Then Glued Back Together, Smashed And Glued, Smashed And Glued Until The Pieces Just Don't Fit Together Anymore.

I Think Every Man And Woman Is A Star. It's Just A Matter Of Realizing And Becoming It. It's All A Matter Of Willpower. The World Is Just How You See It. If You Want To Have Other People Tell You How To See It, Then You Can. But If You Want To Look At It Differently, Then It's Limitless What You Can Do. That's Why I Don't Feel The Need To Be One Person. I Can Be As Many People As I Like.

Anything Can Be Misinterpreted. People Can Look At Christ On A Cross And Think, This Is An Image Of Murder, This Is Violent, This Has Sexual Imagery In It. And It Just - I Think It's My Job As An Artist To Be Out There Pushing People's Buttons And Making Them Question Everything.

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.)

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