List of Malcolm Mclaren Quotes

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!

The Pistols Were Like My Work Of Art. They Were My Canvas.

I've Always Thought That Gaming And Youtube And The Web Is A Very Post-punk Extravaganza.

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.

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.

I Never Intended For The Sex Pistols To Be Immeasurably Successful.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.