Coldplay Quotes
- All Quotes
- News Quotes
-
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Off the bat, I played bad. But I didn't let that get to me. I just kept scrambling.
-
Music is split up now into little pockets.
-
I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial feeling from when I first heard a song and make sure we do what were initially aiming for.
-
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.
-
Everyone tells me it's very healthy. It's very depressing, but it's very healthy. We always have this bubbling level of vitriol.
-
Those who are dead are not dead, they're just living in my head.
-
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
-
Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
-
I like it short but it's getting farther and farther back, so it's growing long
-
I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
-
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.
-
I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way,
-
I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.
-
It seems strange. We're touring in a bubble, so we don't feel it.
-
Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
-
I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
-
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.
-
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.
-
When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.
-
I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
-
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.