Chris Martin quotes

Chris Martin is a British singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist of the band Coldplay. His work has earned international acclaim, with numerous awards and chart-topping albums. He is known for his distinct voice, emotive performances, and contributions to modern rock and pop music. Here are 119 of his quotes:

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. source.

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Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.

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Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

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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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The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make sure all children have the opportunity to find their gift.

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Life is beautiful in all its colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

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Anyone who criticizes me for talking about fair trade is really a few pebbles short of a beach, because everybody should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment: because we all live here. MTV, 2005. source.

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Undeniably handsome, Martin has a floppy, slightly fey quality that leaves women feeling divided between mauling and mothering him. source.

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I think as people listen to the album more it'll become its own thing more, but it'll also become apparent how much we've plagiarised. To me, really, at the end of our album we should've had a bibliography.

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I've been banging the drum on that sort of thing, environment sustainability, for a long time – and getting some flack for it along the road – so yes I'm pleased other artists are starting to get on board with it too, but listen, really taking flack is what we do – it's ok, I'm cool with that. source.

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It's no accident that so many fabled rock ensembles have had two contrasting leaders (Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Plant and Page, Bono and The Edge) to play off each other and cross-pollinate and, at times, butt heads. But Chris Martin completely dominates Coldplay; there's no yin to his smiley enraptured yang. He's the rock-king superstar the other band members all worship, humbly, as the genius who made their fates possible, and almost every moment of the band's creative energy is organized around what Chris is going to do next: the piano chords he's playing around with, the lyrics he's writing, his endless studio perfectionism. source.

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Chris Martin of Coldplay was spot-on when he burst on to Graham Norton's set and described the karmic moment represented by Donald Trump's success in being elected President of the United States. Mr. Martin said, in terms, that Trump expressed the feelings of millions of people, and that doing so is a refreshing and crucial part of democracy. source.

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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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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.

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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.

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In the British vacuum of passive-aggressive public transport and mumbled apologies, Chris Martin's stomach-ribbing charisma on stage can be as nauseating as doing star jumps right after lunch, and it's not hard to see how the everlasting hate for Coldplay was born. But when we hate on them, are we just acknowledging that we want to experience more from life? Or are we negating the fact we feel these everyday – average, yet no less meaningful – emotions deep down, too? I think it's a bit of both.

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Britain thought he could now go back to being just some English bloke and eating chips. It turns out this notion is utterly wrong, because when Martin walks into a room, I am rather startled to find that a stellar quality enters with him. His energy hits you from across the room: the intense stare, the piercing blue eyes, the feet that are usually barefoot nowadays.

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After we did the Super Bowl, we took so much s*it, and then we went on the biggest tour we've ever been on, it made me realize: okay some people really like what we do and some people really don't – and we love them equally. I'm just happy and grateful to be a human, I don't mind if you don't love what we do but we do love what we do.

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If you can give someone the pleasure of not liking you, maybe that's as valid as the pleasure of liking you, some people want to assert themselves by showing the things they don't like. It's a form of positioning yourself. We all do that. I get it. But I'm more focused on the people who do like what we do, and there's a few of them. I like hanging out with those people. If you ever liked Coldplay, then we're going to really deliver on our promise over the next year or so. It's not guarded music. It's about very open things and that might not resonate with some people. But I don't want to obscure our music behind coolness or cynicism just to avoid criticisms. Because for some people it really connects, and I need it, too.

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I always felt that, as a musician, we show up for one day for a cause and we really believe in what we're talking about, but then the next day we have our own concerns. I want to try to have a more long-term relationship between artists and people who are really trying to affect change in the world.

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It does something to your brain which is odd... you have to work really hard not to be a real d**k (in personal life).

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Some people misconstrue our band just to be just a commercial venture, they question the soulfulness of Coldplay because we've done okay. 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. I always feel like the big bad outside world just fucking hates us.

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