Chris Martin Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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.
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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
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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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It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.
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We realized we were able to build the same house at the same price or less with less headaches. It makes it easier for us to build the houses.
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Music is split up now into little pockets.
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Everyone tells me it's very healthy. It's very depressing, but it's very healthy. We always have this bubbling level of vitriol.
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Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.
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I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.
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I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.
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Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating
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I like it short but it's getting farther and farther back, so it's growing long
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Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
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More idiots should just shut their mouths.
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I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way,
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All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.
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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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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.
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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.
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I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
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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.