Chris Martin Quotes - Page 2

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

  Chris Martin

  Drug, Drink, Smoke

  "Happy landings" by Ted Kessler, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.

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• I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

  Chris Martin

  Music, Mean, Sound

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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.

  Chris Martin

  Two, Reason, Humans

  "'We're about to be fed to the lions'". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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• I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.

  Chris Martin

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 31, 2011.

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• As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.

  Chris Martin

  Art, Real, Interesting

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.

  Chris Martin

  Real, Mean, Artist

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.

  Chris Martin

  My Best Friend, Want, All Time

  "Coldplay: Four Best Friends, Powered By Chemistry". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. October 21, 2011.

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• I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.

  Chris Martin

  Smart, Teeth, Goes On

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

  Chris Martin

  Successful, Needs, Helping

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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.

  Chris Martin

  Beach, Talking, Care

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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.

  Chris Martin

  Unique, Player, Handsome

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• More idiots should just shut their mouths.

  Chris Martin

  Village Idiots, Mouths, Idiot

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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.

  Chris Martin

  Real, Thinking, Together

  "'We're about to be fed to the lions'". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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• I don't mind not being cool.

  Chris Martin

  Mind, Being Cool

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• I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

  Chris Martin

  Thinking, People, Ego

  "Chris Martin on Coldplay's freebies". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. June 7, 2009.

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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.

  Chris Martin

  Mean, Kids, Years

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• The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

  Chris Martin

  Uplifting, Ghost Stories, Ideas

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• I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

  Chris Martin

  Fall, Age, Twenties

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• Those who are dead are not dead
  They're just living in my head.

  Chris Martin

  "42". Song by Christopher Anthony John Martin, Guy Rupert Berryman, William Champion, Jonathan Mark Buckland, coldplay.com. 2008.

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• Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

  Chris Martin

  Criticism, Sometimes, Constructive

  "Coldplay: Four Best Friends, Powered By Chemistry". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 21, 2011.

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• In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.

  Chris Martin

  Artist, Ideas, America

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  Chris Martin

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

  Chris Martin

  Thinking, Evil, World

  "Coldplay's frontman turns on 'evil' shareholders". www.independent.co.uk. May 18, 2005.

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

  Chris Martin

  Bad Relationship, People, Parent

  "The importance of being earnest" by Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2005.

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• Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

  Chris Martin

  People, Confusing, Middle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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