Chris Martin

Musician

1977-03-02

Chris Martin is a British musician and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the band Coldplay. He is known for songs such as Yellow, Clocks, and Viva la Vida.

Quotes by Chris Martin

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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You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we're sometimes playing quieter stuff, it's hard to sound like we're trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.
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Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody. It's like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.
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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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You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
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When you think of Rihanna's voice, you think of this whole, rich thing, solid like a tree trunk.
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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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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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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.
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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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