Chris Martin Quotes
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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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Music is split up now into little pockets.
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Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
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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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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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Those who are dead are not dead, they're just living in my head.
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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 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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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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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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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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The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
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Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating
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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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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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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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I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way,
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Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.
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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.
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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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More idiots should just shut their mouths.
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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.