Quotes by Malcolm Mclaren

Malcolm Mclaren

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

Disrespectful

Hate

This Society

Don’t kill the golden goose.

Geese

Golden

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.

Creating

People

Plant

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.

Ideas

Order

Thinking

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.

Believe

Generations

Looks

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.

Art

Girl

Mother

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

Pistols

Sex

Successful

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.

Adventure

Crazy

Kings

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.

Music

Sexy

Thinking

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.

Art

Believe

Morning

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Adventure

Art

Attitude

Beautiful

Believe

Benign

Boredom

Break

Canvas

Clever

Communication

Crazy

Creating

Creative

Cute

Design

Dies

Disrespectful

Doors

Facts

Fashion

Fearless

Fighting

Geese

Generations

Girl

Golden

Hate

Ideas

Ifs

Junkie

Kind

Kings

Life Changing

Looks

Mean

Morning

Mother

Music

New York

Noble

Nursing

Order

Paris

People

Pistols

Plant

Posts

Punk

Rock And Roll

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Quotes by Malcolm Mclaren

Malcolm Mclaren

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

Don’t kill the golden goose.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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