Chris Martin Quotes

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Chris Martin

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 2, 1977

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?

Chris Martin

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.

Chris Martin

India appeals to everybody. For me personally, I always felt like we would come here when we wanted to embrace all colours. I don't mean racially, but literally; just all the colours of the world.

Chris Martin

For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.

Chris Martin

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.

Chris Martin

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

Chris Martin

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

Chris Martin

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

Chris Martin

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.

Chris Martin

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

Chris Martin

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.

Chris Martin

I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

Chris Martin

I do worry - a lot.

Chris Martin

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.

Chris Martin

Music is split up now into little pockets.

Chris Martin

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.

Chris Martin

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

Chris Martin

If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

Chris Martin

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.

Chris Martin

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.

Chris Martin