Coldplay Quotes
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When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.
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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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It seems strange. We're touring in a bubble, so we don't feel it.
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I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way,
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I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
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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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You won't see us at one of these for many, many years. We won't see you for a long time. I mean it. It's going to be years before we have the chance to say this again.
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I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.
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I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
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More idiots should just shut their mouths.
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I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
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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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Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
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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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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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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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Music is split up now into little pockets.
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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.
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Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
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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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Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.
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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.
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Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.
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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.