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Malcolm Mclaren

Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way. He is best known as a promoter and manager of bands such as the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols.

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

Art, Glorious, Stealing, Stealing Things, World

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.

Become, Desire, Ideas, Order, Particularly, Thinking

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.

Noble, Want, Break, Anti, Allows

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.

Age, Attitude, Participation, Sid, Song, Stars

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, Pillow, Wonderful

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

Benign, Clever, Failure, Flamboyant, Kind

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

Posts, Punk, Thought, Web, Youtube

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.

Cities, Nursing, Paris, Shoes, Thing

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.

Art, Aspects, Communication, Result, Technology, Witnessing

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!

Life, New York, Paris, Run, Running, Work

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

Art, Canvas, Like, Pistols, Work

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.

Creative, Destruction, Haircut, Shirts, T Shirt, Wearing

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.

Arms, Fearless, Life Changing, Matters, Possibly, What Matters

Don't kill the golden goose.

Geese, Golden, Goose, Kill

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, Everyone, Failures, People, Plant, Seed

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.

Lyric, Mean, Question, Rock And Roll, Rocks, Roll

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.

Becoming, Believe, Dinosauric, Look, Movies, Way

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.

Cute, People, Boredom, Except, Culture, Notion

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.

Art, Design, Fashion, Music

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, Fired, Girl, Girls, Job, Mother

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