Chris Martin Quotes - Page 3

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• When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

  Chris Martin

  Expectations, Albums, Fifth

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• If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?

  Chris Martin

  Mean, Wife, Want

  "No wedding bells for Britney's little sis" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. June 12, 2008.

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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.

  Chris Martin

  Family, Class, Degrees

  "Celebrity squares?" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2003.

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• If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.

  Chris Martin

  Thinking, People, Records

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

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• Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

  Chris Martin

  Beautiful, Thinking, Wonderful

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

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• If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

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  People, Greedy, Company

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• Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

  Chris Martin

  Albums, World, Feels

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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.

  Chris Martin

  Wife, Trying, Profession

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• You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.

  Chris Martin

  Feelings, Singing, Way

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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.

  Chris Martin

  Believe, Thinking, Band

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• I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

  Chris Martin

  Home, Thinking, Dancing

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• It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.

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  Agreement, Rhyme, Trade

  "Coldplay get behind fair trade campaign" by David Munk, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2003.

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• Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

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  People, Painful, Said

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• Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

  Chris Martin

  Running, Country, Long

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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.

  Chris Martin

  Beautiful, Girl, War

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

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• I've had tinnitus for about 10 years, but since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse. Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem. I wish I'd thought about it earlier.

  Chris Martin

  Thinking, Ears, Problem

  "Coldplay Frontman Chris Martin Reveals 10-Year Struggle With Ear Condition Tinnitus" by John Mitchell, www.mtv.com. May 04, 2012.

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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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  Thinking, Tree, Doe

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• You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

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  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

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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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  People, Dynamite

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• I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

  Chris Martin

  Running, Yoga, Skinny

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

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• Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

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  Two, Challenges, Trying

  "Coldplay's Quiet Storm". Interview with Austin Scaggs, www.rollingstone.com. August 25, 2005.

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• I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

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  Albums, Artwork

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• The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.

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  Jobs, Crazy, Real

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

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• Music is split up now into little pockets.

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  Pockets, Splits, Littles

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• I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

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  Successful, Thinking, Class

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