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Song Quotes by Chris Martin

22 Song quotes by Chris Martin

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Chris Martin’s words drift like a well‑tuned piano, each of the twenty‑two entries echoing his love for melody and emotional resonance. He sketches the quiet moments behind a chorus and the soaring highs that lift a listener, offering a window into the heart of his musical outlook.

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If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

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Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

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I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,

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The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

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Music is split up now into little pockets.

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I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have…

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

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I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our…

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Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like…

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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…

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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…

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I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.

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For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.

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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…

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My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen…

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Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and…

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I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about…

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The lyrics just come out, and I don't know where from. I'm an incredible failure in relationships. I think there's a romantic…

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Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away…

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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…

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I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

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We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's…

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I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes…

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What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is…

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Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

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There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

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I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history…

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

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The lyrics just come out, and I don't know where from. I'm an incredible failure in relationships. I think there's a romantic ideal that…

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I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away…

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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…

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In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the…

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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…

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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…

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I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I…

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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…

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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…

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