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Top 25 Malcolm McLaren Quotes (2025 Update)

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “Too fast to live, too young to die.”

1. “Too fast to live, too young to die.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “Don’t kill the golden goose.”

3. “Don’t kill the golden goose.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “To be a flamboyant failure, that’s better than being any kind of benign success.”

4. “To be a flamboyant failure, that’s better than being any kind of benign success.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.”

8. “Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “What are the politics of boredom?”

9. “What are the politics of boredom?”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.”

11. “The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “I’ve always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.”

12. “I’ve always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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!”

13. “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

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.”

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

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “Try managing a junkie – especially if you’ve never been one yourself.”

20. “Try managing a junkie – especially if you’ve never been one yourself.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.”

22. “The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Malcolm McLaren Quote: “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.”

25. “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

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