Top 155 Quotes & Sayings by Chris Martin
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
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.
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.
Music comes from a place we don't know.
I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.
Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.
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.
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!
When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To be totally honest with you, I'm so happy to be alive every day.
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.
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.
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.
Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen mask. That's really my philosophy now: our band is the best band in the world. And so are all the other bands.
When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
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.
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.
I don't mind not being cool.
People say it's a bit repetitive to say, 'Oh oh oh oh oh oh,' but you can't translate the melody into words.
If you don't let love in, then you can't really give it back.
I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.
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.
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.
Somebody rang me up the other day and said 'Yellow' was on a karaoke machine. That made me genuinely excited. It's got a nice beat.
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.
I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
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.
For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.
Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.
You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.
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.
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.
I don't actually own a car.
You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
More idiots should just shut their mouths.
I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.
If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.
I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.
It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.
You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.
I have a very wonderful separation-divorce. It's a divorce - but it's a weird one.
I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.
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