“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

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musician, co-founder of Coldplay 1977

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