Chris Martin Quotes

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Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy

Rihanna has this thick tone, so it’s very hard to annoy anybody. It’s like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.
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The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make sure all children have the opportunity to find their gift.
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Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don’t know what it is.
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Music comes from a place we don’t know.
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What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It’s a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
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When you think of Rihanna’s voice, you think of this whole, rich thing, solid like a tree trunk.
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I don’t drink, I don’t take drugs, I don’t smoke.
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Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.
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What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.
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Somebody rang me up the other day and saidYellow‘ was on a karaoke machine. That made me genuinely excited. It’s got a nice beat.
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I’m competitive with anyone who writes a good song – I don’t care if it’s a band or solo artist or whoever.
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So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don’t really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you’re sequencing a record.
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I don’t speak particularly well. That’s one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
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You gotta wear the right trousers if you’re gonna be a rock star.
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A band’s only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.
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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!
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I genuinely love Oasis, and I also genuinely love Beyonce. My body gets the same pleasure. If you like different types of music, it’s OK to say it.
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Being voted the world’s sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It’s not quite as cool as Brad Pitt, but it’ll do.
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I think if you’re lucky enough to be in a band with your best friends, and you look at the world in the right way, than you understand that everything that’s happening to you can be alchemized.
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I’m not a great dancer. I’m a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don’t care what you think. I’m having a great time.
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Once a week, I don’t eat for 24 or 30 hours. Your brain becomes very lucid about ideas. It also made me so grateful for food and for life, basically, and that’s why a lot more joy is coming through our music, I think.
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I never talk about my wife: we’re both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
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Maybe it’s because I’m English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.
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I always dream about other musicians. And they’re never interested in hanging out with us. It’s like being at school and the bigger boys don’t want to play with you!
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I’m not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.
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I have a very wonderful separation-divorce. It’s a divorce – but it’s a weird one.
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This person loves tangerines, This person loves raspberries – and my son won’t even look at berries. Isn’t that amazing? And so I have to apply that to music; otherwise, I would always hide in a hole because of all the people that don’t like Coldplay.
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I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, ‘Why is our band sometimes a punch line?’
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Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.
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There’s stuff going on in the world right now, which you can’t imagine why is this happening; it’s crazy. I don’t know what the answer is, but if you didn’t have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we’d all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone‘s time.
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When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
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Music is split up now into little pockets.
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I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
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I don’t mind not being cool.
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I do worry – a lot.
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You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you’re singing it from someone else‘s angle. But it’s always from me. It’s just a new way of framing it.
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I’ve had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn’t got any worsetouch wood.
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I give complete respect to any couple that stays together, however they do it, whether they do it by going on red carpets or going hiking together, you know, or keeping themselves really quiet and trying to stay out of all that press stuff.
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Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn’t mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end… or, indeed, doesn’t mean they can’t get better.
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I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we’re fine with it.
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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.
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Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don’t think about until there’s a problem.
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Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
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If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.
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Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
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We aren’t cool and never will be.
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You’ve got to express yourself in life, and it’s better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.
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You have two years to make a record and do what you like to it; then, you have 10 minutes to do an interview that could mess it all up. It’s the Crispian Mills Syndrome.
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Well, once we finish something, I can’t really listen to it because all I hear are problems.
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Rihanna’s voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.
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I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it’s fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won’t be that healthy.
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Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it’s out there in the world it’s no longer ours.
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To be totally honest with you, I’m so happy to be alive every day.
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We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that’s all music is.
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I think it’s part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class – you’re always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.
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I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.
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We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
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You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we’re sometimes playing quieter stuff, it’s hard to sound like we’re trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.
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Record sales don’t really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn’t feel like he wasted his pocket money.
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I think we’re a band with a lot of history now so it’s nice to come up with something that doesn’t have any history at all.
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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.
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I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
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I’m petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.
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I’m happy in L.A., but I will live wherever my kids are, and I don’t really mind where it is.
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I don’t actually own a car.
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If you don’t let love in, then you can’t really give it back.
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To me, India‘s always represented ‘everything’; it represents ‘all.’ Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you’ll never feel like you’ve missed out on life.
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I can’t believe we’ve got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven‘t done anything I think is that good yet.
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