Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Malcolm Mclaren (British Impresario, Musician)

Malcolm McLaren (1946–2010,) fully Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren, was a British rock impresario and musician. The manager of the punk-rock band the Sex Pistols, he helped birth punk culture and had a pivotal influence on late 20th-century pop culture.

Born in North London, McLaren attended several art schools in England. He was drawn to the provocative Marxist-rooted philosophy of the Situationist International movement and its leading figure, Guy Debord. With his girlfriend, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, he opened the avant-garde clothing boutique Let It Rock in 1971. They popularized looks from punk to fetish, which still dominate the fashion world.

McLaren became more interested in rock music as a means to enact his radical aesthetic ideas. He briefly managed the American glam rock band, the New York Dolls. In 1975, he began working with a band that he named the Sex Pistols. By the following year, the loud punk group had become a cause célèbre in the United Kingdom. An unashamed self-publicist, McLaren eagerly fueled the controversy with stunts such as having the band play its anti-establishment youth anthem “God Save the Queen” aboard a boat outside the Houses of Parliament in London.

Following the Sex Pistols’ collapse in 1978, McLaren guided the image and career of the new-wave band Adam and the Ants and formed a spin-off act, Bow Wow Wow. In 1983, he released his solo album, Duck Rock, an eclectic fusion of hip-hop and world music that spawned two British top 10 hits: “Buffalo Gals” and the much-sampled “Double Dutch.” Several other albums followed, including the opera-inspired Fans (1984,) Waltz Darling (1989,) and Paris (1994.)

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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.
Malcolm Mclaren
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