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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• Siempre me siento más cómodo en un entorno caótico. No sé por qué. Creo que el orden es aburrido. Hay algo en este tipo de deseo de orden, sobre todo en las culturas anglosajonas, que expulsa esta capacidad de las calles de convertirse en un lugar realmente exótico, amorfo, caótico y orgánico donde las ideas pueden, básicamente, desarrollarse.

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  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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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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• 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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• 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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• Sid Vicious inició la era de la participación en la que todo el mundo podía ser el artista. Sid demostró que no hace falta tocar bien para ser la estrella. Puedes tocar mal, o ni siquiera tocar. Yo apoyaba esa actitud. Si no sabes escribir canciones, no hay problema: simplemente roba una y modifícala a tu gusto.

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  Song, Stars, Attitude

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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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• 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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• 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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• What are the politics of boredom?

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  Aburrimiento

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• Dejé la escuela a los 16 años y mi madre me consiguió un trabajo como aprendiz de catador de vinos. Pero un día seguí a unas chicas a la escuela de arte de St Martin y vi a una mujer voluptuosa sentada en un taburete mientras la dibujaban. Decidí despedirme.

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

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  Trying, Junkie, Ifs

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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 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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• Don't kill the golden goose.

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  Golden, Geese

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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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• 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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• 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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