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“Jay Z: We are good friends, but what I got to say has nothing to do with our friendship. I have been in the industry long enough to know when I’m in the presence of a genius… and Chris Martin is just that. In years to come, Britain will look back at him as a modern day Shakespeare, he is an incredible recording artist, an incredible songwriter, but where he really comes alive is performing live. If you get the chance to see Coldplay live, do it, you ain’t gonna regret it.”

Chris Martin

http://www.metroguiltypleasures.com/metro/coldplays-chris-martin-is-a-modern-day-shakespeare-says-jay-z/ source

“It’s hard to perfect a happy song. Pharrell managed it. Stevie Wonder managed it. Bill Withers managed it. I haven’t managed it yet.”

Chris Martin

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

Chris Martin

Alluding to his marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow
Scaggs, Austin; Corbijn, Anton (2005-08-25), "COLDPLAY'S QUIET STORM". Rolling Stone. (981):40-46.

“I think a band by its very nature is only as good as the chemistry between the players. None of us in rock bands, or whatever kind of bands we’re in, are virtuosos, otherwise we’d be concert pianists. So the only thing you have in your favor as a band is your unique chemistry.”

Chris Martin

http://www.stopcryingyourheartout.co.uk/2015/11/chris-martin-on-oasis-and-working-with.html?m=1 source

“What changed for me was – I don’t want to go through life being scared of it, being scared of love, being scared of rejection, being scared of failure.”

Chris Martin

On a Zane Lowe interview, 2014. source https://youtube.com/watch?v=9pF7bS_4JnE

“The reason why I wouldn’t commit suicide… well, the main reason now is ’cos I have a baby and I would never commit suicide because of her. But to me, committing suicide from a nihilistic point of view is pointless, because we’re all gonna die anyway, so why not just hang around and see what happens? D’you know what I mean? If something is inevitable, why board the plane early?”

Chris Martin

http://www.hotpress.com/music/day-2000-coldplays-debut-album-parachutes-hits-no-1-22782005 source

Chris Martin Quotes about people

“They balance each other out. Chris and I are like Jay and Beyonce; two paranoid ironists and two calm grounded people.”

Chris Martin

http://belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/chris-martin-admits-his-friendship-with-jayz-is-hilarious-28686561.html source
Gwyneth Paltrow to Q Magazine on the friendship they share with Jay Z & Beyoncé, 2011.

“Coldplay is for people with great taste, intelligence, incredible good lookingness, talent, ability, success, grabbing of life. Coldplay's for people who know what life's about. They're always entertaining. Delightful to talk to. Sweet, charming, incredibly good in bed. Virile. They have incredible success with girls, or boys, or both. They're generally just the world's best citizens. Maybe I'm biased, but I'm definitely right.”

Chris Martin

In an interview with Andrew Denton on Enough Rope, 3 July 2006.

“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.”

Chris Martin

" The Best Moments from the Chris Moyles Show, 2016 http://xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=88936", on X&Y.

“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.”

Chris Martin

http://richarddnorth.com/2016/11/chris-martin-on-graham-norton-show-and-fascism-and-liberalism/ source

“Wayne Coyne: Well, I really think that there’s an authenticity and a truth in Chris in the way that he sings to the audience. And even though you’d have to think there has to be some difference between playing to a couple of hundred people when they started and playing to literally tens of thousands of people now, I still see that in him. That’s why I like them so much, because he is the real deal. He’s not faking it when he gets up there and that enthusiasm still effects him. So in that way, I think they’re virtually unchanged. They haven’t become these unapproachable mega rock stars.”

Chris Martin

http://www.coldplay.com/flaming-lips-interview/ source

“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.”

Chris Martin

http://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/8543058/chris-martin-super-bowl-backlash-successful-world-tour source

Chris Martin Quotes about life

“Life is miraculous. Even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible.”

Chris Martin

“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.”

Chris Martin

Ryan Bassil, February 11 2016. source http://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/6w8v44/why-do-we-hate-coldplay

“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).”

Chris Martin

http://www.rte.ie/amp/613168/ source
Martin on being a lead singer.

“Not cool. Ever. I’ve never been cool and I don’t really care about being cool. It’s just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted. At school I was a medium-clever geek. If you’re at public school (Sherbourne) and you’re not that good at rugby, you spend quite a few important years of your life feeling like a real loser. We’ve never been about cool. What’s happened to us is more about showing that the geeks at school can get there in the end. And you have to stay true to who you are, the root of all this is to do with our friendship.”

Chris Martin

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2048220/Chris-Martin-Coldplay-Gwyneth-Paltrow-album.html source

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

Chris Martin

http://www.nme.com/news/music/coldplay-129-1241495 source

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

Chris Martin

On the Live 2012 concert documentary.

Chris Martin Quotes

“Q: Everyone picks up a certain emotional vulnerability in your music.”

Chris Martin

Yeah, but I don’t think that’s just a feminine thing. All men are soft and vulnerable, as well. (...) I think we boys, we men, are actually much weaker and softer than we like to think. source http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/chris-martin-the-rolling-stone-interview-190116

Music

“I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be over-whelmed by the miraculousness of it?”

Chris Martin

Scaggs, Austin; Corbijn, Anton (2005-08-25), "COLDPLAY'S QUIET STORM". Rolling Stone. (981).

God

“To know where you come from makes where you are even more special.”

Chris Martin

Making love

“There's no reason not to stand for this song, come on, if you stand we'll buy you all ice cream”

Chris Martin

Chris Martin, Live 2003.

“Chris is proof of how wonderful humans can be when they really put their minds to it.”

Chris Martin

Will Champion on BBC Radio 2, November 28 2019.

“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.”

Chris Martin

http://www.nme.com/news/music/coldplay-to-play-a-couple-more-shows-before-they-take-a-break-to-reconsider-touring-2581423 source

Time

“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.”

Chris Martin

Thinking , Change

“How it did - in terms of commercial performance, is not how it feels to us. At the time it felt like this is not quite finished and not quite right.”

Chris Martin

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/chris-martin-coldplay-interview-jann-wenner-920912/ source
On the X&Y album.

Time , Feeling

“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.”

Chris Martin

http://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/coldplay-a-head-full-of-dreams-review-1203031635/ source

Time , Fate

“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.”

Chris Martin

Sophie Heawood from 23 June, 2016 article on The Guardian.

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

Chris Martin

http://www.westword.com/music/head-trip-5072812 source

Feeling , Women

“Every phrase can be a good lyric if it has the good rhythm.”

Chris Martin

On interview with Wall Street Journal, 2015. source http://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/coldplay-and-chris-martin-open-up-for-new-album-1447868383

“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.”

Chris Martin

On interview with Wall Street Journal, 2015. source http://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/coldplay-and-chris-martin-open-up-for-new-album-1447868383

Pleasure , Music , People

“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.”

Chris Martin

On his job as the curator of Global Citizen Festival. source http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/chris-martin-will-curate-global-citizen-festival-for-next-15-years-164240/

World , People , Change

“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.”

Chris Martin

Chris Martin to Spin Magazine, October 2011. source http://spin.com/2011/10/chris-martins-quiet-riot

Soul , Hate , Question , Bad luck

“I’m never going to be as adept lyrically as Jay Z or Morrissey.”

Chris Martin

On a Zane Lowe interview, 2014. source https://youtube.com/watch?v=9pF7bS_4JnE

“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.”

Chris Martin

http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/celebrity/men-should-always-change-diapers-chris-martin_5266.html source

Imagination , Men , Love , Making love

“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.”

Chris Martin

On Times of India interview, 2016. source https://timesofindia.com/entertainment/english/music/news/We-are-greedy-to-play-a-full-concert-in-Mumbai-we-havent-played-here-before/amp_articleshow/55488508.cms

Children , Making love

“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. Music is split up now into little pockets.”

Chris Martin

https://www.spin.com/2011/10/chris-martins-quiet-riot/?amp=1 source

Money , Music

“We are very much a band and we always have been, and we are more than ever. In our personal lives and our professional lives, there’s this thing that links us where we would do anything for the others and its a very powerful feeling, to go have gone through everything we’ve been through with the same group of people. We knew each other when we had nothing.”

Chris Martin

http://coldplaying.com/ultimate-ghost-stories-walkthrough-chris-martin/ source

Personality , People , Feeling

“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

http://coldplaying.com/coldplay-campaigns-to-make-trade-fair-on-twisted-logic-tour-2006/ source