Top 100 Chris Martin Quotes
#1. I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.
Noel Gallagher
#2. If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#3. Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now.
Simon Pegg
#4. I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick ... he's a really nice guy too.
Harry Styles
#5. I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.
Taylor Swift
#6. Cue the damn tears. Damn Chris Martin and his ability to make me cry every time he opens his damn mouth.
Claire Contreras
#7. I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of a pop act. The music is much more cerebral than it is animalistic.
Ian Astbury
#8. I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.
Jenny Lewis
#9. I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
B.o.B
#10. We don't tell anyone the darker side of things. We've been through all the breakups and addictions and all that. But we have a chemistry that no one else in the world has. So we don't mess with it." - Chris Martin
Chris Martin
#11. Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.
Ian Astbury
#13. I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome
Thom Yorke
#14. I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we're asses.
Thom Yorke
#15. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.
Chris Martin
#16. Over on the Democratic side, Martin O'Malley recently spoke about the need for Wall Street reform and said that he isn't running for president to be quote, 'wined and dined' by executives. Then Chris Christie said, 'And I am also not running to be wined.'
Jimmy Fallon
#17. Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.
Chris Martin
#18. If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?
Chris Martin
#19. 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
#20. I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?
Chris Martin
#21. I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.
Chris Martin
#22. If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
Chris Martin
#23. I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,
Chris Martin
#24. Nothing matters except life and the love you make.
Chris Martin
#25. I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.
Chris Martin
#26. 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 flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.
Chris Martin
#27. I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.
Chris Martin
#28. So what Ghost Stories means to me is like, you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but then it will be great at some point.
Chris Martin
#29. He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for. Oh and I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said.
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head
Chris Martin
#30. I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.
Chris Martin
#32. 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.
Chris Martin
#33. In the governor's race, Chris Bell has as good a shot as anybody in a four-way race. If Bell holds on to his base and connects with some people who are tired of the way things are going, he could win.
Ed Martin
#35. When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.
Chris Martin
#36. We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
Chris Martin
#37. 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 doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.
Chris Martin
#38. Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.
Chris Hardwick
#39. You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
Chris Martin
#40. I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
Chris Martin
#41. You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
Chris Martin
#42. When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
Chris Martin
#43. 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
#44. I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police',
and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.
Chris Martin
#45. Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.
Chris Martin
#46. 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.
Chris Martin
#47. I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
Chris Martin
#49. It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
Chris Martin
#50. Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
Chris Martin
#51. Those who are dead are not dead, they're just living in my head.
Chris Martin
#52. I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
Chris Martin
#53. 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
#54. Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.
Chris Martin
#55. 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
#56. The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.
Chris Martin
#57. The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.
Chris Martin
#58. The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
Chris Martin
#60. Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones who bought me Steve Martin records and let me watch R-rated comedies long before they probably should have.
Chris Hardwick
#61. The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.
Chris Martin
#62. I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
Chris Martin
#63. Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
Chris Martin
#64. 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
#65. More idiots should just shut their mouths.
Chris Martin
#66. 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 at all.
Chris Martin
#67. Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.
Chris Martin
#68. 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.
Chris Martin
#69. Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.
Chris Martin
#71. When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.
Chris Martin
#72. I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.
Chris Martin
#73. I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
Chris Martin
#74. All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.
Chris Martin
#75. It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.
Chris Martin
#76. 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
#77. Cool to me is following what you believe in.
Chris Martin
#78. Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.
Chris Martin
#79. I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
Chris Martin
#80. I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.
Chris Martin
#81. 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
#82. I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.
Chris Martin
#83. There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.
Chris Martin
#84. In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.
Chris Martin
#85. Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.
Chris Martin
#86. I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.
Chris Martin
#87. Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.
Chris Martin
#88. I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.
Chris Martin
#89. Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
Chris Martin
#90. 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.
Chris Martin
#91. 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
#93. Some people are into bondage ... and some people are into crossdressing.. and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.
Chris Martin
#94. I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.
Chris Pratt
#95. There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.
Chris Martin
#96. Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.
Chris Martin
#97. 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.
Chris Martin
#98. Music is split up now into little pockets.
Chris Martin
#99. There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.
Chris Crutcher
#100. Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.
Chris Martin
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