Chris Martin quotes - page 2

I'm never going to be as adept lyrically as Jay Z or Morrissey. (Chris Martin)
It's more egalitarian on the Internet, anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest. Music is split up now into little pockets.
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We are very much a band and we always have been, and we are more than ever. In our personal lives and our professional lives, there's this thing that links us where we would do anything for the others and its a very powerful feeling, to go have gone through everything we've been through with the same group of people. We knew each other when we had nothing.
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My mom was always interested in [social and environmental justice movements]. Life on this planet becomes more joyful when you become less afraid of people who look or speak different than you.
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I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be over-whelmed by the miraculousness of it?
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What changed for me was – I don't want to go through life being scared of it, being scared of love, being scared of rejection, being scared of failure.
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It's hard to perfect a happy song. Pharrell managed it. Stevie Wonder managed it. Bill Withers managed it. I haven't managed it yet.
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Q: Everyone picks up a certain emotional vulnerability in your music.
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To know where you come from makes where you are even more special.
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Life is miraculous. Even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible.
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Chris is proof of how wonderful humans can be when they really put their minds to it. (Chris Martin)
How it did - in terms of commercial performance, is not how it feels to us. At the time it felt like this is not quite finished and not quite right.
Chris Martin
I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.
Chris Martin
Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.
Chris Martin
Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
Chris Martin
I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.
Chris Martin
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other. source.
Chris Martin
The reason why I wouldn't commit suicide... well, the main reason now is 'cos I have a baby and I would never commit suicide because of her. But to me, committing suicide from a nihilistic point of view is pointless, because we're all gonna die anyway, so why not just hang around and see what happens? D'you know what I mean? If something is inevitable, why board the plane early? source.
Chris Martin
I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk! source.
Chris Martin
Not cool. Ever. I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted. At school I was a medium-clever geek. If you're at public school (Sherbourne) and you're not that good at rugby, you spend quite a few important years of your life feeling like a real loser. We've never been about cool. What's happened to us is more about showing that the geeks at school can get there in the end. And you have to stay true to who you are, the root of all this is to do with our friendship. source.
Chris Martin
I think a band by its very nature is only as good as the chemistry between the players. None of us in rock bands, or whatever kind of bands we're in, are virtuosos, otherwise we'd be concert pianists. So the only thing you have in your favor as a band is your unique chemistry. source. (Chris Martin)
They balance each other out. Chris and I are like Jay and Beyonce; two paranoid ironists and two calm grounded people. source.
Chris Martin
There's no reason not to stand for this song, come on, if you stand we'll buy you all ice cream.
Chris Martin
We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
Chris Martin
I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
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