Malcolm Mclaren Quotes

• Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

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  Hate, Disrespectful, This Society

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• The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Rocks, Facts

  "Sex Pistols manager dead". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2010.

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• What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

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  Life Changing, What Matters, Fearless

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• There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

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  Fighting, Doors, Two

  "This much I know" by Malcolm Mclaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

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  Clever, Kind, Benign

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• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

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  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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• Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

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  Art, Stealing Things, World

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• I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

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  Noble, Want, Break

  "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

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  Fashion, Art, Design

  "Searching for a way to break the rules" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

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• It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

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  Creative, T Shirt, Shirts

  "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

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  Creating, People, Plant

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

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  Song, Stars, Attitude

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• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

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  Kings, Crazy, Adventure

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• Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.

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  Cute, People, Boredom

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• What are the politics of boredom?

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  Boredom

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• Too fast to live, too young to die.

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  Young, Dies

  "Elements Of Anti-style" by Malcolm McLaren, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1997.

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• I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.

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  Girl, Mother, Art

  "Portrait of the artist: Malcolm McLaren, musician". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Don't kill the golden goose.

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  Golden, Geese

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• I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

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  Art, Morning, Believe

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• I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

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  Sex, Successful, Pistols

  "Portrait of the artist: Malcolm McLaren, musician". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

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  Trying, Junkie, Ifs

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• Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

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  Art, Communication, Technology

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• The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

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  Nursing, Shoes, Paris

  "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• I think if it doesn't do what I say, if it doesn't do what I want, if it isn't politically subversive, if it isn't sexy, if it isn't stylish to make all that happen then it isn't truthfully worth listening to.

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  Music, Sexy, Thinking

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• The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

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  Art, Pistols, Canvas

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