Quotes by Malcolm Mclaren - Page 1

Don't kill the golden goose.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Geese
Golden
Goose
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What are the politics of boredom?
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
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Too fast to live, too young to die.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Dies
Young
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Art
Canvas
Pistols
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Pistols
Sex
Sex Pistols
Successful
Intended
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Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Ifs
Junkie
Trying
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Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Art
Stealing Things
World
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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Art World
Glorious
Stealing
Particularly
Occupations
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To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
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Benign
Clever
Kind
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Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Disrespectful
Hate
This Society
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I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Gaming
Posts
Punk
Youtube
Web
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The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Beautiful
Facts
Rocks
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Art School
Benign
Flamboyant
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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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Art
Cool
Design
Doubt
Fashion
Influence
Measurement
Punk
Art Music Movies
Longer
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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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Failure
Break
Noble
Pursuit
Want
Rules
Anti
Embraced
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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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Creative
Shirts
T Shirt
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Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Band
Immortal
Mean
Rock And Roll
Rocks
Singer
Lyric
Necessarily
Rock
Question
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
New York
Running
Distraction
Paris
Life Work Great
Great Place
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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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Failure
Arms
Break
Fearless
Life Changing
What Matters
Life Change Moment
Rules
Itself
Matters
Moment
Possibly
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I always said punk was an attitude. 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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Attitude
Destruction
Punk
Ripped
Wearing
Haircut
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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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Kings
Adventure
Blue
Crazy
If I Could
Lame
Elvis
Recreate
Suit
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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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Buying
Nursing
Paris
Shoes
Work Great Where
Work Great City
Great City
Wandering
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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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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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Allowing
Creating
Magnificent
People
Plant
Disasters
Failures
Seed
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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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Art
Communication
Technology
Financial
Financial Markets
Transformation
Unprecedented
Predict
Aspects
Communications
Markets
Witnessing
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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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Art
Girl
Art School
Mother
Voluptuous
Wine
Art Myself Me
Fired
Followed
Stool
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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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Doors
Fighting
Two
Always World Fight
Authentic
Door
Enter
To Live By
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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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Art
Morning
Art School
Be Prepared
Believe
Pillow
Prepared
Allowed
Wonderful Thing
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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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Attitude
Artist
No Problem
Participation
Problem
Song
Stars
Taste
Vicious
Change Age Your
Badly
Began
Star
Simply
Endorsed
Proved
Steal
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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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Cute
Smile
Boredom
Parent
People
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Believe
Generations
Irreverent
Looks
New Generation
Programming
Provocative
Spontaneous
Antique
Medium
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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.
Malcolm Mclaren / Musician
Chaotic
Exotic
Ideas
Order
Streets
Surroundings
Thinking
Cultures
Develop
Organic
Saxon
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