Charles Manson
Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson:136–7 is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in the California desert in the late 1960s. Manson and his followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. In 1971 he was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the murders of seven people — most notably of the actress Sharon Tate — all of which were...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth12 November 1934
CityCincinnati, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Sure, I'm crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody's crazy.
Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.
There's nothing wrong with being incompetent. It just means you don't have to do as much.
I play music. People are affected by the music I play. That doesn't mean I direct traffic! That doesn't mean I put a knife in anybody's hand and tell 'em to go kill somebody!
You invented the words, and you gave me a dictionary and you said, 'These are what the words mean.' Well, this is what they mean to you, but to someone else, they have got a different dictionary.
Well, were our own prisons. We each our own wardens & we do our own times. We get stuck in our own little trips & we kind a judge ourselves the way we do. You know, I cant judge uh, nobody else, best thing I can do is try to judge myself & live with that. See, what other people do is not really my affair, unless they approach me with it, & want me to do something about it, uh, then Ill uh take into consideration what has to be done. But other than that I just uh, try to do my number, & do my time.
You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.
My relationship to music is completely subliminal, it just flows through me.
When I go on the mountain and I say "Do it!", it gets done. And if it doesn't get done, then I move on it. And that's the last thing in the world you want from me!
I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.
In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.
If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a thing.
I don't want parole; I'm too busy working on my web site....