Chris Martin Quotes

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Chris Martin

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 2, 1977

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

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.

Chris Martin

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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More idiots should just shut their mouths.

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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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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!

Chris Martin

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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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.

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I don't actually own a car.

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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 never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

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It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.

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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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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.

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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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If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

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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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People who write happy songs are often unhappy.

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I'm saying One Direction are brilliant! And I'm not kidding. Because their songs are really good.

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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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