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Chris Martin [1977-0] American
Rank: 101
Musician, Singer-songwriter


Christopher Anthony John Martin is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the British alternative rock band Coldplay. 

Cool, Best, Good, Money, Power



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Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant. Best, Good
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The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.
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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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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. Money
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Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
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Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has. Power
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More idiots should just shut their mouths.
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You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
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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.
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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. Cool
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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.
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You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.
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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!
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I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
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I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.
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We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
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We aren't cool and never will be. Cool
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There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.
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Music comes from a place we don't know.
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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.
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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 change anything.
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I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
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Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
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Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.
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I do worry - a lot.
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I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
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If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
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I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.
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Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.
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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.
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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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When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
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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 making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
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Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.
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Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
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I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
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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 instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
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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.
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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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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.
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I don't mind not being cool. Cool
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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.
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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.
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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 yet.
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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 at all.
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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
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I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
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So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.
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I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
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Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.
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It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
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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 shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
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You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
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Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.
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Music is split up now into little pockets.
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I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!
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I don't actually own a car.
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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.
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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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