Malcolm Mclaren Quotes

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• To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
• Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.
• The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
• The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.
• 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…
• Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.
• 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.
• 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,…
• Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Don't kill the golden goose.
• I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
• I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.
• Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.
• 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…

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