Chris Martin Quotes

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Chris Martin

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 2, 1977

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.

Chris Martin

To be totally honest with you, I'm so happy to be alive every day.

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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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You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

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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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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.

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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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If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

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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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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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There's a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it's just not realistic.

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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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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 have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

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There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

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Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

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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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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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Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

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Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

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